Molana, S M H; Davoudpour, H; Minner, S - In: Journal of the Operational Research Society 63 (2012) 11, pp. 1499-1507
We consider a liquid type of a deteriorating item which is packaged by an outside supplier and is delivered to final customers by a distributor. Customers arrive according to a Poisson process and ask for an integer number of packages. Unsatisfied demands are backordered. The inventory is...