Fill rate of single-stage general periodic review inventory systems

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 503-509

  Zhang, Jiang ^a   Zhang, Jun ^b  

^a ADELPHI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Base stock policy; Fill rate; Inventory; Periodic review

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

BASE-STOCK POLICY; FILL RATE; PERIODIC REVIEW;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 34248594417     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orl.2006.08.003     Document Type: Article

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