A probabilistic analysis of the multi-period single-sourcing problem (Q5946827)

In the multi-period single-sourcing problem one has to minimize the inventory and transportation costs in an assignment of customers to warehouses such that each customer is assigned to exactly one warehouse in each time period subject to given capacity constraints. The authors investigate a general stochastic model of this task. The probabilistic analysis of the proposed model is given and the theoretical results are empirically illustrated.