Retail inventory control with lost sales, service constraints, and fractional lead times

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 393-408

  Kapalka, Brian A ^a   Katircioglu, Kaan ^a   Puterman, Martin L ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

(s, S) Policies; Lost sales; Markov chains; Service levels

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040216459     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.1999.tb00315.x     Document Type: Article

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