94%-effective policies for a two-stage serial inventory system with stochastic demand

Management Science

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1679-1696

  Chen, Fangruo ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMAND AND CONTROL SYSTEMS; COSTS; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

HEURISTIC POLICY; POISSON DEMAND; TWO STAGE SERIAL INVENTORY SYSTEMS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 0033351752     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.45.12.1679     Document Type: Article

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