A joint replenishment policy with individual control and constant size orders

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 48, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 4253-4271

  Mustafa Tanrikulu, M ^a   Seņ, Alper ^b   Alp, Osman ^b  

^a Procter Gamble   (Turkey)

^b BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Inventory systems; Replenishment policy; Stochastic joint replenishment problem

Indexed keywords

BACKORDERING; BACKORDERS; COST STRUCTURE; ECONOMIES OF SCALE; INDIVIDUAL CONTROL; INVENTORY HOLDING; INVENTORY SYSTEMS; JOINT REPLENISHMENT; JOINT REPLENISHMENT PROBLEM; LEAD TIME; MULTIPLE ITEMS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; REORDER POINTS; REPLENISHMENT POLICY; SETUP COSTS; STOCHASTIC DEMAND; TRANSPORTATION COST; TRANSPORTATION VEHICLES;

INVENTORY CONTROL; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COSTS;

EID: 77952624796     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540802662904     Document Type: Article

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