Near-optimal echelon-stock (R, nQ) policies in multistage serial systems

Operations Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 592-602

  Chen, Fangruo ^a   Zheng, Yu Sheng ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Inventory production: multiechelon, lot sizing, stochastic, heuristics

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COSTS; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INVENTORY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

MULTISTAGE SERIAL SYSTEMS; NEAR-OPTIMAL ECHELON-STOCK POLICIES;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0032114478     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.46.4.592     Document Type: Article

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