The Finite Horizon Nonstationary Stochastic Inventory Problem: Near-Myopic Bounds, Heuristics, Testing

DOI10.1287/MNSC.41.2.334MaRDI QIDQ4849347zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Thomas E. Morton, David W. Pentico

Publication date 9 November 1995

Published in Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.41.2.334

zbMATH Keywords

upper boundfinite horizonnonstationary stochastic periodic review inventory problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamic programming (90C39) Inventory, storage, reservoirs (90B05)

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