A heuristic for triggering emergency orders in an inventory system

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 880-891

  Axsäter, Sven ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Emergency supply; Inventory control; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS REVIEW REORDER POINT POLICY; EMERGENCY SUPPLY; HEURISTIC DECISION RULE;

COSTS; DECISION MAKING; HEURISTIC METHODS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; WAREHOUSES;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 33749582283     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2005.09.002     Document Type: Article

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