A new approach for the stochastic cash balance problem with fixed costs

Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 545-562

  Chen, Xin ^a   Simchi Levi, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CUSTOMER DEMANDS; INVENTORY LEVELS; INVENTORY PROBLEM; NEW APPROACHES; OPTIMAL POLICIES; PERIODIC REVIEW; PLANNING HORIZONS; TOTAL EXPECTED COSTS;

COSTS;

EID: 75049083829     PISSN: 02699648     EISSN: 14698951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0269964809000242     Document Type: Article

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