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Title: Approximate evaluation of continuous review $(R,Q)$ policies in two-echelon inventory systems with stochastic transportation times (English)
Author: Karaman, Abdullah S.
Language: English
Journal: Kybernetika
ISSN: 0023-5954 (print)
ISSN: 1805-949X (online)
Volume: 53
Issue: 3
Year: 2017
Pages: 461-479
Summary lang: English
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Category: math
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Summary: This paper considers a distribution inventory system that consists of a single warehouse and several retailers. Customer demand arrives at the retailers according to a continuous-time renewal process. Material flow between echelons is driven by reorder point/order quantity inventory control policies. Our objective in this setting is to calculate the long-run inventory, backorder and customer service levels. The challenge in this system is to characterize the demand arrival process at the warehouse. We present a Markovian methodology to elucidate and approximate this process. We illustrate the use of this methodology in the distribution inventory system under stochastic transportation times with identical and non-identical retailers. (English)
Keyword: inventory control
Keyword: Markovian analysis
Keyword: stochastic lead-times
Keyword: distribution inventory systems
MSC: 60J27
MSC: 90B05
idZBL: Zbl 06819618
idMR: MR3684680
DOI: 10.14736/kyb-2017-3-0461
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Date available: 2017-11-12T09:43:18Z
Last updated: 2018-01-10
Stable URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10338.dmlcz/146937
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