Article ID: | iaor19971348 |
Country: | Netherlands |
Volume: | 45 |
Issue: | 1/3 |
Start Page Number: | 429 |
End Page Number: | 433 |
Publication Date: | Aug 1996 |
Journal: | International Journal of Production Economics |
Authors: | Kchel Peter |
Keywords: | location |
It is known that an equivalence between queueing models and single-location inventory models exists if the demand is assumed as a continuous stochastic process. The paper points out how queueing network models and their methods of investigation can be used for modeling and solving multi-location inventory problems.