Periodic review inventory-control for perishable products under service-level constraints

OR Spectrum

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 979-996

  Minner, Stefan ^a   Transchel, Sandra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inventory; Perishable products; Service level

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955717097     PISSN: 01716468     EISSN: 14366304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00291-010-0196-1     Document Type: Article

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