Control policies for single-stage production systems with perishable inventory and customer impatience

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 115-138

  Ioannidis, Stratos ^a   Jouini, Oualid ^b,c   Economopoulos, Angelos A ^a   Kouikoglou, Vassilis S ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b ECOLE CENTRALE PARIS   (France)

^c NEOMA BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

Author keywords

Admission control; Customer impatience; Lead time estimation; Make to stock production; Perishable inventory; Queueing systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884971572     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-012-1058-9     Document Type: Article

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