Optimal inventory policy for the fuzzy newsboy problem with quantity discounts

Information Sciences

Volumn 228, Issue , 2013, Pages 75-89

  Chen, Shih Pin ^a   Ho, Yann Horng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fuzzy set; Inventory management; Newsboy problem; Newsvendor problem; Optimization

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS METHOD; CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; FUZZY DEMAND; FUZZY TOTAL COST; INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; INVENTORY POLICIES; INVENTORY PROBLEM; NEWSBOY MODEL; NEWSBOY PROBLEM; NEWSVENDOR PROBLEM; NONLINEAR FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; OPTIMAL ORDER QUANTITY; OPTIMIZATION THEORY; PIECE-WISE; PURCHASING COSTS; QUANTITY DISCOUNT; RANKING METHODS; RANKING OF FUZZY NUMBERS; RELATIVE POSITIONS; STOCHASTIC APPROACH;

COST FUNCTIONS; COSTS; FUZZY SETS; INVENTORY CONTROL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; SITE SELECTION;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84873205996     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2012.12.015     Document Type: Article

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