Abstract
We consider a certain class of perishable inventory systems with items and demands arriving at random times. The shelf lifetime of every item is finite and deterministic. Every demand is for a single item and is satisfied by the oldest item on the shelf, if available. Generalizing previous work, we assume that the input and/or the demand rate depend on the current value of the basic virtual outdating process (VOT). For different models of this kind we derive the steady-state distribution of the VOT and of the number of items on the shelf.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 155-162 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Mathematical Methods of Operations Research |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 2004 |
Keywords
- Inventory
- Perishable
- State-dependent rates
- Steady-state distribution
- Virtual outdating process
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- General Mathematics
- Management Science and Operations Research