Exact Computation of Optimal Inventory Policies Over an Unbounded Horizon
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چکیده
An inventory scheduling model with forbidden time intervals is analyzed The objective is to minimize the long term average cost per time unit Unlike most of the literature on inventory theory no restrictive assumptions are made apriori about the nature of optimal solutions It is rather proved that optimal policies exist and that some of them are cyclic with cycles of a particular structure It is then shown that such optimal polices can be computed and an algorithm is given
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Math. Oper. Res.
دوره 16 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1991