Stochastic inventory management at a service facility with a set of reorder levels

We consider a continuous review perishable inventory system at a service facility with a finite waiting capacity. The maximum inventory level is fixed and the customers arrive according to a Markov arrival process. The life time of each item and the service time are assumed to have independent expon...

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Main Authors: VSS Yadavalli, B Sivakumar, G Arivarignan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Operations Research Society of South Africa (ORSSA) 2007-12-01
Series:ORiON
Online Access:http://orion.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/53