A trade off between emergency repair and inventory investment

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 119-132

  Verrijdt, Jos ^a   Adan, Ivo ^b   Kok, Ton de ^a  

^a Faculty Technology Management   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REPAIR; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EMERGENCY REPAIR POLICY;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 0031998566     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408179808966444     Document Type: Article

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