ALLOCATION OF A PERISHABLE PRODUCT INVENTORY.

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Abstract

A perishable product is periodically produced and allocated among n locations in a region. It is assumed that costs are charged for units short or outdated at any location, and the excess demand at any location is satisfied from outside sources. It is proven that the optimal allocation policy minimizes both the expected average shortages and the expected average outdates in the region, and we discuss the management implications of this result. The author presents the myopically optimal policy M and show that it has similar properties to the optimal policy pi ***. It is proven that pi *** cannot be ″very different″ from M; the author derives analytic bounds for the performance of pi ***. It is shown that the long-run performance of M lies always within these bounds.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)95-107
Number of pages13
JournalOper Res
Volume29
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1981

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