×

An inventory system for perishable items with by-products. (English) Zbl 0978.90005

Summary: 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.

MSC:

90B05 Inventory, storage, reservoirs
90B22 Queues and service in operations research
PDFBibTeX XMLCite
Full Text: DOI