Managing perishables with substitution: Inventory issuance and replenishment heuristics

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 319-329

  Deniz, Borga ^a   Karaesmen, Itir ^b   Scheller Wolf, Alan ^c  

^a CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heuristics; Inventory management; Perishable goods; Substitution

Indexed keywords

BASE STOCK; COST PARAMETERS; DISCRETE-TIME; INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; PERISHABLE INVENTORY; PERISHABLE PRODUCT; REPLENISHMENT POLICY; SUFFICIENT CONDITIONS; SYSTEM BEHAVIORS;

INVENTORY CONTROL; SUPPLY CHAINS;

COMPETITION;

EID: 77952125031     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1090.0276     Document Type: Article

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