New results on the newsvendor model and the multi-period inventory model with backordering

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 373-376

  Janakiraman, Ganesh ^a   Park, Seung Jae ^b   Seshadri, Sridhar ^c   Wu, Qi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c INDIAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (India)

Author keywords

Dilation order; Limited demand information; Multi period inventory model; Newsvendor model

Indexed keywords

DEMAND DISTRIBUTION; DILATION ORDER; INVENTORY MODELS; LIMITED DEMAND INFORMATIONS; NEWSVENDOR MODELS; OPTIMAL COSTS; SHORTAGE COST; STOCHASTIC LEAD-TIMES;

COSTS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 84877622779     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orl.2013.04.008     Document Type: Article

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