A note on lead time and distributional assumptions in continuous review inventory models

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1007-1012

  Moon, Ilkyeong ^a   Choi, Sangjin ^a  

^a Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Continuous review; Distribution free approach; Inventory model; Lead time reduction

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

INVENTORY MODELS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 0032210280     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0305-0548(97)00103-2     Document Type: Article

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