On the first come-first served rule in multi-echelon inventory control

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 485-491

  Axsäter, Sven ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Allocation rule; Inventory management; Stochastic demand; Two level

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC METHODS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; RANDOM PROCESSES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

ALLOCATION RULE; INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; STOCHASTIC DEMAND;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 34547654073     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: 15206750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20225     Document Type: Article

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