HU, XIANGPEI; WANG, HUIMIN; WANG, YUNZENG - In: Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (APJOR) 29 (2012) 01, pp. 1240002-1
Costs of many items drop systematically throughout their life-cycles, due to advances in technology and competition. Motivated by the management of service parts for some high-tech products, this paper studies inventory decisions for such items. In a periodic review setting with stochastic...