Inventory control with Markovian capacity and the option of order rejection

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-1-2006

Abstract

We consider a stochastic inventory control problem with Markovian capacity and the option of order rejection. We show its optimal policy to be the combination of a capacity-dependent modified base-stock production policy and a capacity-dependent critical-point order acceptance policy. When capacity is stochastically monotone, we show that the policy parameters change over the current capacity level in an intuitive way. All these results can be extended to the infinite-horizon case, with or without cost discounting. Our computational study substantiates the benefits from both exploiting the Markovian behavior of the capacity and rejecting orders when necessary. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Identifier

33845273546 (Scopus)

Publication Title

European Journal of Operational Research

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2004.12.016

ISSN

03772217

First Page

622

Last Page

645

Issue

1

Volume

174

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