Optimality of four-threshold policies in inventory systems with customer returns and borrowing/storage options

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 45-71

  Feinberg, Eugene A ^a   Lewis, Mark E ^b  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVENTORY CONTROL; MARKOV PROCESSES;

AVERAGE COST PER UNIT TIME; FINANCIAL INSTITUTION; IDENTICALLY DISTRIBUTED RANDOM VARIABLES; INVENTORY SYSTEMS; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; OPTIMAL DECISIONS; OPTIMALITY EQUATION; THRESHOLD POLICIES;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 12144273111     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0269964805050047     Document Type: Article

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