Inventories with multiple supply sources and networks of queues with overflow bypasses

Management Science

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 362-372

  Song, Jing Sheng ^a   Zipkin, Paul ^b  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inventories; Multiple supply sources; Product form solutions; Queuing networks; Stochastic lead times

Indexed keywords

INVENTORIES; MULTIPLE SUPPLY SOURCES; PRODUCT-FORM SOLUTIONS; QUEUING NETWORKS; STOCHASTIC LEAD TIMES;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POISSON EQUATION; QUEUEING NETWORKS; QUEUEING THEORY; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

COMPETITION;

EID: 67649962891     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1080.0941     Document Type: Article

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