Investigating the effect of demand aggregation on the performance of an (R, Q) inventory control policy

Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference - Simulation: Making Decisions in a Complex World, WSC 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3318-3329

  Rossetti, Manuel D ^a   Shbool, Mohammad ^a   Varghese, Vijith ^a   Pohl, Edward ^a  

^a University of Arkansas   (United States)

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EID: 84894165603     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2013.6721696     Document Type: Conference Paper

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