An optimal critical level policy for inventory systems with two demand classes

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 632-642

  Möllering, Karin T ^a   Thonemann, Ulrich W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Analytical model; Critical level policy; Inventory management

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INVENTORY CONTROL; MARKOV PROCESSES; SALES;

ANALYTICAL MODEL; CRITICAL LEVEL POLICY; CRITICAL LEVELS; DEMAND CLASSES; INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; INVENTORY POLICIES; INVENTORY SYSTEMS; MULTIDIMENSIONAL MARKOV CHAINS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; OPTIMAL PARAMETERS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMIZATION APPROACHES; PENALTY COSTS; PERIODIC REVIEWS; SAMPLE PATHS;

COSTS;

EID: 55049115159     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: 15206750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20307     Document Type: Article

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