Inventory systems for goods with censored random lifetimes

نویسندگان

  • David Perry
  • Wolfgang Stadje
چکیده

We consider a Poisson inventory model for perishable goods in which the items have random lifetimes and are scrapped either when reaching the end of their lifetime or a xed constant expiration age. The crucial process to describe this system is the virtual death process (W (t))t¿0, where W (t) is the residual waiting time after time t until the next ‘death’ of an item if there were no demand arrivals after t. We derive its stationary law in closed form and determine the distribution of the number of items in the system (also in steady state). c © 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Oper. Res. Lett.

دوره 27  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2000