Approximation of the probability distribution of the customer waiting time under an (r, s, q) inventory policy in discrete time

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 48, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 6275-6291

  Tempelmeier, Horst ^a   Fischer, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

customer waiting time; inventory management

Indexed keywords

ADJACENT NODES; CUSTOMER DEMANDS; DISCRETE RANDOM VARIABLES; DISCRETE TIME; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICES; INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; INVENTORY POLICIES; LEAD TIME; PERFORMANCE CRITERION; PERIODIC REVIEW; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SUPPLIER-CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIPS; TIME AXIS; TIME MODEL; WAITING-TIME;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INVENTORY CONTROL; PLANNING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PUBLIC RELATIONS; RANDOM VARIABLES; SALES; SUPPLY CHAINS;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77956654162     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540903317531     Document Type: Article

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