A heuristic to manage perishable inventory with batch ordering, positive lead-times, and time-varying demand

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3013-3018

  Broekmeulen, Rob A C M ^a   van Donselaar, Karel H ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Inventory; Model; Perishable; Replenishment policy; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BATCH ORDERINGS; FIRST IN FIRST OUTS; GROCERY RETAILERS; INVENTORY; INVENTORY REPLENISHMENTS; INVENTORY SYSTEMS; LEAD-TIME; LOT SIZINGS; PERISHABLE; PERISHABLE INVENTORIES; PERISHABLE PRODUCTS; PRODUCT LIVES; REPLENISHMENT POLICY; SIMULATION; TIME-VARYING DEMANDS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 64549161493     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2009.01.017     Document Type: Article

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