Inventory rationing in a capacitated system with backorders and lost sales

IEEM 2007: 2007 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1579-1583

  Tang, Ying ^a   Xu, Dong Sheng ^b   Zhou, Wei Hua ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Capacitated; Markov decision process; Periodic review; Rationing

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DECISION MAKING; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROFITABILITY; SALES;

COST SAVINGS; MARKOV DECISION PROCESS; PERIODIC REVIEW;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 40649103183     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEEM.2007.4419458     Document Type: Conference Paper

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