Estimating stock levels in periodic review inventory systems

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 179-182

  Van Der Heijden, Matthieu C ^a   De Kok, Ton ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Approximations; Inventory; Operating characteristics

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MULTI-ECHELON SYSTEMS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 0032058121     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-6377(98)00020-0     Document Type: Review

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