This book develops a modeling framework to analyze the problem of inventory management with alternative delivery times …. The general context considered here is that a seller replenishes its inventory in fixed intervals and, between … replenishments, allocates the limited inventory to satisfy customers who are both price and delivery-time sensitive. On the demand …

includes recent advances in inventory theory, for example, new techniques for multi-echelon inventory systems and Roundy's 98 … practical issues in connection with industrial implementation. Other topics covered in Inventory Control include: alternative …

Inventory and Supply Chain Management with Forecast Updates is concerned with the problems of inventory and supply … chain decision making with information updating over time. The models considered include inventory decisions with multiple … potential research directions. Attention is focused on solutions—that is, inventory decisions prior and subsequent to …

of periodic review inventory systems. Second, it includes a comprehensive study on analytical and optimization aspects of … a specific class of those systems. For the latter purpose, general solution methods for problems of inventory management … problems of inventory management …

also yields new challenges for inventory management because there are two sources to satisfy product requirements which …. The work aims to identify those motives and to describe their effects by using methods of optimal control theory. … yields challenges for inventory management. This work aims to identify those motives and to describe their effects by using …

scientific literature on inventory theory, and this volume reviews all the important conceptual developments of the subject … inventory theory." Paul Zipkin Duke University …"This book contains the most complete, rigorous mathematical treatment of the classical dynamic inventory model with …

Inventory Management in Multi-Echelon Networks presents methods to plan inventory in distribution networks. By … holistically looking at the supply chain, it shows how safety stocks across all echelons can be optimized if inventory of all … levels is taken into consideration. The gap between the existence of advanced inventory planning methods and their low …

Introduction -- Basic Multi-Item, Single-Location Inventory Model -- Multiple Machine Types with Commonality -- Service …-item inventory models and presents exact and heuristic optimization methods, including greedy heuristics that work well for real … inventory control, and spare parts planning specialists in the industry. In individual chapters the authors consider topics …