Service differentiation in spare parts inventory management

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 946-955

  Kranenburg, A A ^a   Van Houtum, G J ^b  

^a Centre for Quantitative Methods CQM BV   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cost benefit; Heuristics; Integer programming; Inventory; Optimization; Queueing

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INVENTORY CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; SALES;

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; COST BENEFITS; DIFFERENTIATED SERVICES; HEURISTICS; INVENTORY; QUEUEING; SEMICONDUCTOR SUPPLIERS; SPARE PARTS PROVISIONING;

COST REDUCTION;

EID: 44849140377     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602414     Document Type: Article

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