Dual-supply inventory problem with capacity limits on order sizes and unrestricted ordering costs

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 716-729

  Yazlali, Özgür ^a   Erhun, Feryal ^a  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bounded increasing decreasing differences; Consecutive leadtimes; Demand uncertainty; Dual supply; Dynamic programming; Minimum and maximum capacity limits

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; BASE STOCK POLICY; CAPACITY LIMIT; COMPLEMENTARY SERVICES; CONSECUTIVE LEADTIMES; DEMAND UNCERTAINTY; DUAL SUPPLY; EMERGENCY SITUATION; FINITE PLANNING HORIZON; FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES; GLOBAL SUPPLIERS; INVENTORY PROBLEM; LEADTIME; LOCAL SUPPLIERS; OPTIMAL POLICIES; ORDER SIZE; ORDERING COST; PROBLEM PARAMETERS; PRODUCT TYPES; SUPPLY PROBLEMS;

COSTS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; MANUFACTURE; SUPPLY CHAINS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

COMPETITION;

EID: 70749159724     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170802705768     Document Type: Article

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