Exact analysis of divergent inventory systems with time-based shipment consolidation and compound poisson demand

Operations Research

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 906-921

  Stenius, Olof ^a   Karaarslan, Ayşe Gönül ^b   Marklund, Johan ^a   De Kok, A G ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Compound Poisson demand; Continuous review; Inventory; Multi item; Multiechelon; Shipment consolidation; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

INVENTORY CONTROL; SALES; SHIPS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WAREHOUSES;

COMPOUND POISSON; CONTINUOUS REVIEW; INVENTORY; MULTI-ITEM; MULTIECHELON; STOCHASTIC;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84982085249     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.2016.1510     Document Type: Article

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