The effect of lead time and demand uncertainties in (r, q) inventory systems

Operations Research

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 68-80

  Song, Jing Sheng ^a,b   Zhang, Hanqin ^c,d   Hou, Yumei ^e   Wang, Mingzheng ^f  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Shanghai Jiao Tong University   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (China)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e YANSHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Inventory system; Optimal policy; Reorder point order quantity; Stochastic comparison; Stochastic lead time; Variability

Indexed keywords

BASE STOCK; DEMAND DISTRIBUTION; DEMAND UNCERTAINTY; GENERAL MODEL; INVENTORY SYSTEMS; LEADTIME; LONG-RUN AVERAGE COST; OPTIMAL POLICIES; ORDER QUANTITY; POISSON PROCESS; REORDER POINTS; STOCHASTIC COMPARISONS; STOCHASTIC LEAD TIME;

INVENTORY CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 77249107850     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1090.0711     Document Type: Article

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