On optimal expediting policy for supply systems with uncertain lead-times

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 309-330

  Kouvelis, Panos ^a   Tang, Sammi Y ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

expediting; lead time information; random lead time; safety lead time; supply uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859047734     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2011.01265.x     Document Type: Review

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