Baron, Opher; Berman, Oded; Perry, David - In: Mathematical Methods of Operations Research 72 (2010) 2, pp. 217-247
This paper is an in-depth treatment of an inventory control problem with perishable items. We focus on two prototypes of perishability for items that have a common shelflife and that arrive in batches with zero lead time: (i) sudden deaths due to disasters (e.g., spoilage because of extreme...