Optimal Batch Provisioning to Customers Subject to a Delay-Limit - Berg, Menachem; van der Duyn Schouten, Frank; Jansen, Jorg (Management science, 1998)
Keywords: Applied sciences; Cost analysis; Cost control; Cost efficiency; Costs; Customer service; Customer services; Decision making; Decision making models; Delivery costs; Exact sciences and technology; Fixed costs; Inventory control, production control. Distribution; Management science; Minimization of cost; Modeling; Operational research and scientific management; Operational research. Management science; Optimal policy; Period costs; Personal computers; Policy making; Production planning; Random variables; Statistical analysis; Studies; Aggregation; Demand; Delivery (good); Markov process; Cost minimization; Services; Batch mode; Stochastic process; Allowance; Delay