The influence of demand variability on the performance of a make-to-stock queue

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 195-205

  Jemaï, Zied ^a   Karaesmen, Fikri ^b  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS   (France)

^b KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Base stock; GI M 1; Make to stock; Production Inventory; Stochastic comparisons

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; INVENTORY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; RANDOM PROCESSES; SCHEDULING;

BASE-STOCK; G1/M/1; MAKE-TO-STOCK; PRODUCTION/INVENTORY SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC COMPARISONS;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 10444275081     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2003.06.042     Document Type: Article

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