Capacitated production control with virtual lateral transshipments

Operations Research

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1104-1119

  Yang, Jian ^a   Qin, Zhaoqiong ^b  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EMBRY RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic programming optimal control: Markov; Inventory production: multiechelon; Manufacturing: strategy

Indexed keywords

NONNEGATIVE INVENTORY LEVELS; SUPERMODULARITY; VIRTUAL LATERAL TRANSSHIPMENTS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 38549119860     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1070.0410     Document Type: Article

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