On the time-window fulfillment rate in a single-item min-max inventory control system

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 667-680

  Wang, Tong ^a   Chen, Youhua ^b   Feng, Youyi ^b  

^a INSEAD   (France)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION;

TIME-WINDOW FULFILLMENT RATE; TIME-WINDOW READY RATE;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 20544436951     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170590948530     Document Type: Article

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