On the optimal policy structure in serial inventory systems with lost sales

Operations Research

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 486-491

  Huh, Woonghee Tim ^a   Janakiraman, Ganesh ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inventory production: lost sales; Multiechelon; Optimal policies

Indexed keywords

BACKORDERING; CAPACITY CONSTRAINTS; DERIVE BOUNDS; DISCRETE CONVEX ANALYSIS; EXTERNAL CUSTOMERS; INVENTORY LEVELS; INVENTORY SYSTEMS; INVENTORY/PRODUCTION; LOST SALE; MULTIECHELON; OPTIMAL ORDER QUANTITY; OPTIMAL POLICIES; SINGLE STAGE;

INVENTORY CONTROL; SALES; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 77951159044     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1090.0716     Document Type: Article

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