Probabilistic solution and bounds for serial inventory systems with discounted and average costs

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 623-631

  Chao, Xiuli ^a   Zhou, Sean X ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Average cost; Bounds and heuristics; Discounted cost; Multi echelon inventory system; Optimality of echelon base stock policies

Indexed keywords

BRANCH AND BOUND METHOD; COSTS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INVENTORY CONTROL; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

AVERAGE COSTS; BOUNDS AND HEURISTICS; DISCOUNTED COSTS; MULTI-ECHELON INVENTORY SYSTEMS; OPTIMALITY OF ECHELON BASE-STOCK POLICIES;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 34548591047     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: 15206750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20234     Document Type: Article

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