Estimating customer service in a two-location continuous review inventory model with emergency transshipments

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 569-584

  Xu, Kefeng ^a   Evers, Philip T ^b   Fu, Michael C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous review policy; Distribution; Emergency transshipments; Inventory; Logistics; Pooling

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INVENTORY CONTROL; LOGISTICS;

MULTI LOCATION INVENTORY SYSTEMS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0037448818     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(02)00158-3     Document Type: Article

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