Easy quantification of improved spare parts inventory policies

Management Science

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1213-1225

  Thonemann, Ulrich W ^a   Brown, Alex O ^b   Hausman, Warren H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximation; Inventory policy; Item approach; System approach

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; INVESTMENTS; MACHINE COMPONENTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTER SPARE PARTS; INVENTORY POLICY; ITEM APPROACH; SYSTEM APPROACH;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 0036756454     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.48.9.1213.173     Document Type: Article

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