Optimal policies for inventory systems with priority demand classes

Operations Research

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 993-1003

  Frank, Katia C ^a   Zhang, Rachel Q ^b   Duenyas, Izak ^c  

^a Delta Technology   (United States)

^b The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Inventory production: approximations heuristics; Inventory production: deterministic stochastic; Inventory production: policies

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER DEMANDS; INVENTORY SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL POLICIES;

CONTRACTS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INVENTORY CONTROL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

OPTIMAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 4344655423     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.51.6.993.24923     Document Type: Article

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