On the newsboy model with a cutoff transaction size

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 461-469

  Dekker, R ^a   Frenk, J ^a   Kleijn, M ^a   de Kok, A G ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

NEWSBOY MODEL;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 0033908290     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170008963922     Document Type: Article

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