Near-optimal (r,Q) policies for a two-stage serial inventory system with Poisson demand

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 728-735

  Yang, Lei ^a   Yang, Jian ^b   Yu, Gang ^c   Zhang, Hanqin ^d,e  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Store Corporation   (China)

^d CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

(r,Q) policy; Algorithm; Multi echelon inventory; Stochastic demand

Indexed keywords

(R,Q) POLICY; COST STRUCTURE; ECONOMIES OF SCALE; INVENTORY SYSTEMS; MULTI-ECHELON INVENTORY; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; POISSON DEMANDS; SETUP COSTS; STOCHASTIC DEMAND; TWO STAGE;

ECONOMICS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; OPTIMIZATION;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 80051549071     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2011.03.030     Document Type: Article

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