Integrated real-time capacity and inventory allocation for reparable service parts in a two-echelon supply system

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 292-319

  Caggiano, Kathryn E ^a   Muckstadt, John A ^b   Rappold, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency shipment; Inventory; Limited capacity; Multiechelon system; Periodic review; Priority dispatch rule; Real time allocation; Reparable service parts

Indexed keywords

EMERGENCY SHIPMENT; INVENTORY; LIMITED CAPACITY; MULTIECHELON SYSTEMS; PERIODIC REVIEW; PRIORITY DISPATCH RULE; REAL-TIME ALLOCATION; REPARABLE SERVICE PARTS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 33747192873     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1060.0107     Document Type: Article

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