Optimal control of a production-inventory system with productreturns

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 302-310

  Vercraene, Samuel ^a   Gayon, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a VERIMAG   (France)

Author keywords

Inventory control; Markov decision process; Multi echelon systems; Product returns; Queueing

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE COST; BACKORDERING; BASE STOCK; BASE STOCK POLICY; EXPLICIT FORMULA; EXPONENTIAL SERVERS; FIXED-BUFFER POLICY; HEURISTIC POLICIES; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; MULTI-ECHELON SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; OPTIMAL POLICIES; POISSON DEMANDS; POISSON PROCESS; PRODUCT RETURNS; PRODUCTION CAPACITY; PRODUCTION INVENTORY SYSTEM; QUEUEING; RELATIVE PERFORMANCE; SINGLE STAGE; STATE-DEPENDENT;

INVENTORY CONTROL; MARKOV PROCESSES; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84874550918     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2012.11.012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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