An investigation of setup instability in non-stationary stochastic inventory systems

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 133, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 286-292

  Kilic, Onur A ^a,b   Tarim, S Armagan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Instability; Inventory policies; Non stationary demand

Indexed keywords

COST PARAMETERS; COST PERFORMANCE; DEMAND PATTERN; INVENTORY POLICIES; MEASURING SYSTEMS; NON-STATIONARY DEMAND; NONSTATIONARY; STOCHASTIC INVENTORY SYSTEMS;

COSTS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SYSTEM STABILITY;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 79958229678     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2010.04.021     Document Type: Conference Paper

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