Inventory pooling of repairable spare parts with non-zero lateral transshipment time and delayed lateral transshipments

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 207-218

  Wong, Hartanto ^a   Cattrysse, Dirk ^a   Van Oudheusden, Dirk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Inventory; Inventory pooling; Lateral transshipment; Markov processes; Spare parts

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; REPAIR; TRANSPORTATION;

INVENTORY POOLING; LATERAL TRANSSHIPMENT (LT); MACHINE-REPAIR QUEUING MODELS; SPARE PARTS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 12344280027     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2003.09.031     Document Type: Article

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