Schmidt, Charles P.; Nahmias, Steven - In: Management Science 31 (1985) 6, pp. 719-728
We consider (S - 1, S) policies for a single item whose lifetime is fixed and known with certainty. Demands are generated by a stationary Poisson process and there is a positive leadtime for replenishment. We believe this study gives the only analysis for perishables with a positive order...