Moinzadeh, Kamran; Lee, Hau L. - In: Management Science 32 (1986) 12, pp. 1567-1581
In multi-echelon repairable inventory systems with high set-up cost for order and/or high demand rates, the use of batch ordering may be more cost-effective than the common (S - 1, S) ordering policy. This paper addresses the issue of determining the optimal order batch size and stocking levels...