Developing a closed-form cost expression for an (R, s, nQ) policy where the demand process is compound generalized Erlang

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 567-572

  Larsen, Christian ^a   Kiesmuller G P ^b  

^a AARHUS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (Denmark)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Compound renewal process; Generalized Erlang distribution; Inventory control

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; INVENTORY CONTROL;

COMPOUND RENEWAL PROCESS; GENERALIZED ERLANG DISTRIBUTION; OPTIMAL REORDER LEVEL;

COST ACCOUNTING;

EID: 34547609573     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orl.2006.11.002     Document Type: Article

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