Stock positioning and performance estimation for distribution systems with service constraints

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1141-1157

  Özer, Özalp ^a   Xiong, Hongxia ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fill rate; Heuristics and approximations; Inventory production; Multi stage; Newsvendor solution; Stock positioning

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

FILL RATE; HEURISTICS AND APPROXIMATIONS; INVENTORY/PRODUCTION; MULTI-STAGE; NEWSVENDOR SOLUTION; STOCK POSITIONING;

LOCAL AREA NETWORKS;

EID: 55049091196     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170802322960     Document Type: Article

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