Inventory models with continuous and Poisson demands and discounted and average costs

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 279-293

  Presman, Ernst ^a   Sethi, Suresh P ^b  

^a CENTRAL ECONOMICS AND MATHEMATICS INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

(s, S) policy; Average discounted cost formula; Compound Poisson process; EOQ model; Stochastic inventory model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746138628     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2006.tb00245.x     Document Type: Article

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