Article ID: | iaor20013196 |
Country: | Germany |
Volume: | 51 |
Issue: | 2 |
Start Page Number: | 287 |
End Page Number: | 300 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2000 |
Journal: | Mathematical Methods of Operations Research (Heidelberg) |
Authors: | Stadje W., Perry D. |
Keywords: | queues: theory |
We present models for inventory systems with perishable commodities (PISs) in which the items are not scrapped after reaching their maximum lifetime but are transferred to a second PIS where they are used to satisfy another random stream of demands. We determine the steady-state distribution of the virtual death processes in the various models and point out connections to certain queueing and dam models.