Impacts of supply disruptions and customer differentiation on a partial-backordering inventory system

Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 547-557

  Li, Xueipng ^a   Chen, Yuerong ^a  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

Author keywords

Customer differentiation; Inventory management; Partial backordering; Supply disruption

Indexed keywords

BACKORDERING; BACKORDERS; FIXED PERIOD; INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; INVENTORY POLICIES; INVENTORY SYSTEMS; PARTIAL BACKORDERING; PRODUCT INVENTORY; SIMULATION MODEL; STOCK OUTS; STOCK-OUT; SUPPLY DISRUPTION;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INVENTORY CONTROL; PROBABILITY;

SALES;

EID: 77249093957     PISSN: 1569190X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2009.12.010     Document Type: Article

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