Optimal position-based warehouse ordering in divergent two-echelon inventory systems

Operations Research

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 976-991

  Axsäter, Sven ^a   Marklund, Johan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVENTORY CONTROL; SALES; WAREHOUSES;

BACKORDER; BATCH SIZES; CENTRAL WAREHOUSE; COMPLETE INFORMATIONS; COST STRUCTURES; DEMAND DISTRIBUTIONS; ENTIRE SYSTEMS; EXACT ANALYSIS; FIXED INTEGERS; INFORMATION STRUCTURES; INVENTORY HOLDINGS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OPTIMAL POSITIONS; ORDER QUANTITIES; ORDERING POLICIES; POISSON DEMANDS; TWO-ECHELON INVENTORIES;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 61349104805     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1080.0560     Document Type: Article

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