Minimizing holding and ordering costs subject to a bound on backorders is as easy as solving a single backorder cost model

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 187-192

  Boyaci, Tamer ^a   Gallego, Guillermo ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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

Author keywords

Expected backorders; Service measures; Stochastic inventory; Waiting times

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

SINGLE BACKORDER COST MODEL;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0035508473     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6377(01)00095-5     Document Type: Article

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