Single-stage approximations for optimal policies in serial inventory systems with nonstationary demand

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 414-422

  Shang, Kevin H ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiechelon; Myopic solution; Nonstationary demand; Single stage heuristic

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BASE STOCK; COORDINATION SCHEME; DECENTRALIZED SUPPLY CHAINS; DECOMPOSITION SCHEME; DEMAND VARIABILITY; GAIN INSIGHT; HEURISTIC SOLUTIONS; INVENTORY DECISIONS; INVENTORY SYSTEMS; MULTIECHELON; NEAR-OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; NON-STATIONARY DEMAND; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OPTIMAL POLICIES; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PRODUCT LIFE CYCLES; SAFETY STOCK; SEASONALITY; SINGLE STAGE; SINGLE STAGE SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; INVENTORY CONTROL; LIFE CYCLE; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; SUPPLY CHAINS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84864347587     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1110.0373     Document Type: Article

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