Inventory rationing policy and backup supply with two classes of customers.

In this paper, we consider joint decisions on inventory rationing and replenishment from a regular supplier or a backup supplier with two classes of customers. When the on-hand inventory falls below a certain critical level, an inventory rationing policy is implemented to reject lower priority custo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mingwu Liu, Xiaomei Wei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214386