Advance demand information and a restricted production capacity: On the optimality of order base-stock policies

OR Spectrum

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 643-660

  Wijngaard, Jacob ^a   Karaesmen, Fikri ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Advance demand information; Backlogging and lost sales; Base stock policies; Optimality and heuristics; Restricted production capacity; Sample path equivalence

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547148362     PISSN: 01716468     EISSN: 14366304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00291-006-0076-x     Document Type: Article

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