Single item inventory control under periodic review and a minimum order quantity

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 280-285

  Kiesmuller G P ^a   De Kok, A G ^b   Dabia, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Markov Chain; Minimum order quantity; News vendor inequality; Stochastic inventory model

Indexed keywords

BACKORDERS; COST PERFORMANCE; DEMAND DISTRIBUTION; EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; INVENTORY SYSTEMS; MARKOV CHAIN; MINIMUM ORDER QUANTITIES; NEAR-OPTIMAL POLICIES; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL; NEWS-VENDOR INEQUALITY; NUMERICAL STUDIES; NUMERICAL VALUES; OPTIMAL STRUCTURES; ORDERING POLICIES; PERIODIC REVIEW; SINGLE STAGE; SPREADSHEET APPLICATIONS; STOCHASTIC DEMAND; STOCHASTIC INVENTORY MODEL; TIME-PERIODS;

INVENTORY CONTROL; MARKOV PROCESSES; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 79958207551     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2010.03.019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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