Inventory models involving lead time as adecision variable

M. Ben-Daya; Abdul Raouf

doi:10.1057/jors.1994.85

Inventory models involving lead time as adecision variable

M. Ben-Daya^*, Abdul Raouf

^*Corresponding author for this work

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

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Abstract

Most of the literature dealing with inventory problems assumes lead time as prescribed, whether deterministic or probabilistic. In certain cases, lead time can be reduced but at an added cost. In this article we discuss inventory models where lead time is one of the decision variables.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	579-582
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of the Operational Research Society
Volume	45
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/jors.1994.85
State	Published - May 1994

Keywords

Crashing cost
Inventory model
Lead time

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Management Information Systems
Strategy and Management
Management Science and Operations Research
Marketing

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