Lost-sales problems with stochastic lead times: Convexity results for base-stock policies

Operations Research

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 795-803

  Janakiraman, Ganesh ^a   Roundy, Robin O ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Base stock policies; Convexity; Inventory production: periodic review; Lost sales; Sample path properties

Indexed keywords

BASE-STOCK POLICIES; CONVEXITY; LOST SALES; PERIODIC REVIEW; SAMPLE-PATH PROPERTIES;

FUNCTIONS; LOCATION; PRODUCTION; PUBLIC POLICY; SALES; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 8344268636     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1040.0130     Document Type: Review

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