Karsten, Frank; Basten, Rob J.I. - In: European Journal of Operational Research 233 (2014) 1, pp. 94-104
Companies that maintain capital goods (e.g., airplanes or power plants) often face high costs, both for holding spare parts and due to downtime of their technical systems. These costs can be reduced by pooling common spare parts between multiple companies in the same region, but managers may be...