On the use of independent base-stock policies in assemble-to-order inventory systems with nonidentical lead times

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 436-442

  Reiman, Martin I ^a   Wan, Haohua ^b   Wang, Qiong ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Assemble to order; Base stock policies; Nonidentical lead times; Stochastic program

Indexed keywords

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ASSEMBLE TO ORDER; ASSEMBLE-TO-ORDER (ATO); BASE STOCK POLICY; INVENTORY SYSTEMS; LEAD TIME; NON-IDENTICAL; REPLENISHMENT POLICY; STOCHASTIC PROGRAM;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 84965136753     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orl.2016.04.004     Document Type: Article

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