Good and bad news about the 4S1 T 5 policy

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 42-49

  Liu, Fang ^a   Song, Jing Sheng ^b,c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Compound Poisson process; Convexity; Gamma process; Inventory production; Order up to policy; Periodic review; Submodularity; Unimodality

Indexed keywords

COMPOUND POISSON PROCESS; CONVEXITY; GAMMA PROCESS; INVENTORY/PRODUCTION; ORDER-UP-TO POLICY; PERIODIC REVIEW; SUBMODULARITY; UNIMODALITY;

ALGORITHMS; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84861350462     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1110.0353     Document Type: Article

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