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Inventory systems of perishable commodities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

H. Kaspi  and
D. Perry
H. Kaspi*
Affiliation:
Technion—Israel Institute of Technology
D. Perry*
Affiliation:
Technion—Israel Institute of Technology
*
∗Postal address for both authors: Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel.
∗Postal address for both authors: Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel.
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Abstract

This paper deals with the blood-bank model; namely, an inventory system in which both arrival of items and demand are stochastic and items stored have finite lifetimes. We assume that the arrival and demand processes are independent Poisson processes. We use an analogy with queueing models with impatient customers to obtain some of the important characteristics of the system.

Keywords

QUEUEING SYSTEMS WITH IMPATIENT CUSTOMERSVIRTUAL WAITING-TIMEMARTINGALES
Type
Research Article
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , September 1983 , pp. 674 - 685
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1983 

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