Backorder penalty cost coefficient "b": What could it be?

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 166-178

  Liberopoulos, George ^a   Tsikis, Isidoros ^a   Delikouras, Stefanos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Backorders; Economic order quantity; Perturbed demand; Stockout

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; BACKORDERS; BANG-BANG; CLASSICAL APPROACH; CLASSICAL ECONOMICS; CLASSICAL MODEL; CONVEX FUNCTIONS; DEMAND RATES; ECONOMIC ORDER QUANTITY; FILL RATE; NEW APPROACHES; NEW MODEL; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; P-D MODEL; PENALTY COST; PERTURBED DEMAND; STOCKOUT; STRICT CONVEXITY;

COSTS; HELIUM; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; SALES;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION;

EID: 70449529627     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2009.07.015     Document Type: Article

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