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Business Papers · 2014 · Supply Chains · Methods & Practice

Inventory management with overlapping shrinkages and demands

Alain Bensoussan, Metin Çakanyıldırım, Meng Li, Suresh P. Sethi

Risk and Decision Analysis 5(4), 189–210

Summary

This article analyzes a lost-sales inventory system with partially observed demand and unobserved shrinkage before and after demand. It formulates dynamic programs for tractable cases and develops an iterative policy that performs close to an analytical lower bound.

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Business Papers · 2014

Research theme

Supply Chains · Methods & Practice

Publication

Risk and Decision Analysis 5(4), 189–210

Suggested citation

Alain Bensoussan, Metin Çakanyıldırım, Meng Li, Suresh P. Sethi (2014). Inventory management with overlapping shrinkages and demands. Risk and Decision Analysis 5(4), 189–210.

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