Inventory Control with Generalized Expediting

Operations Research

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1414-1426

  Huggins, Eric Logan ^a   Olsen, Tava Lennon ^b  

^a FORT LEWIS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND BUSINESS SCHOOL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Inventory production policies; Markov decision policies; Overtime production

Indexed keywords

COST STRUCTURE; GAIN INSIGHT; INFINITE HORIZONS; INVENTORY CONTROL PROBLEMS; INVENTORY LEVELS; INVENTORY SYSTEMS; INVENTORY/PRODUCTION; IS COSTS; LOST SALE; MARKOV DECISION; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OVERTIME PRODUCTION; STOCHASTIC DEMAND; UNIT COST;

INVENTORY CONTROL; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

COSTS;

EID: 77958492042     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1100.0820     Document Type: Article

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