Newsvendor equations for optimal reorder levels of serial inventory systems with fixed batch sizes

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 551-556

  Dogru M K ^a   van Houtum, G J ^b   de Kok, A G ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

(R, n Q) policy; Inventory; Multi echelon; Newsvendor equations

Indexed keywords

(R, N Q) POLICY; BATCH SIZES; INVENTORY; INVENTORY HOLDING; INVENTORY SYSTEMS; MULTI-ECHELON; NEWSVENDOR; NEWSVENDOR EQUATIONS; PENALTY COSTS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 50549095073     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orl.2008.06.003     Document Type: Article

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