Optimal policies for inventory systems with separate delivery-request and order-quantity decisions

DOI10.1287/OPRE.1090.0696MaRDI QIDQ3100372zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Qing Li, Ki Ling Cheung, Xiao-Li Wu

Publication date 24 November 2011

Published in Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.1090.0696

zbMATH Keywords

dynamic programmingoptimal policypostponementsingle crossingMarkov decision programmingperiodic-review inventory systemsquasi-\(K\)-convex

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamic programming (90C39) Inventory, storage, reservoirs (90B05) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40)

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