An inventory pooling model for spare units of critical systems that serve multi-companies

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 76, Issue , 2015, Pages 34-44

  Wang, Wenbin ^a,b   Yue, Shuai ^a  

^a University of Science and Technology Beijing   (China)

^b MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Centralization; Cost analysis; Inventory pooling; Spare units

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CENTRALISATION; COST ANALYSIS; CRITICAL SYSTEMS; DECISION VARIABLES; EXPECTED COSTS; GEOGRAPHICAL AREA; INVENTORY POOLING; REPLACEMENT COSTS; SPARE UNIT; STORAGE COSTS;

COST FUNCTIONS;

COST ANALYSIS; INVENTORY; MODELING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84924935329     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2015.02.002     Document Type: Article

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