Technical note - On optimal policies for inventory systems with batch ordering

Operations Research

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 797-802

  Huh, Woonghee Tim ^a   Janakiraman, Ganesh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATCH ORDERING; BATCH SIZES; FINITE HORIZONS; INVENTORY SYSTEMS; MULTIECHELON INVENTORY SYSTEM; OPTIMAL POLICIES; ORDER QUANTITY; TECHNICAL NOTES;

OPTIMIZATION;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 84866388473     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1120.1060     Document Type: Article

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