Title
A perishable inventory system with service facilities and retrial customers
Abstract
In this article, we present a continuous review perishable (s, S) inventory system with a service facility consisting of finite waiting room and a single server. The customers arrive according to a Markovian arrival process (MAP). The individual customer's unit demand is satisfied after a random time of service which is assumed to have phase-type distribution. The life time of each item and the lead time of reorders are assumed to have independent exponential distributions. Any arriving customer, who finds the waiting room is full, enters into the orbit of infinite space. These orbiting customers compete for service by sending out signals the duration between two successive attempts are exponentially distributed. The joint probability distribution of the number of customers in the waiting room, number of customers in the orbit and the inventory level is obtained in the steady-state case. Various stationary system performance measures are computed and total expected cost rate is calculated.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.cie.2007.08.010
Computers & Industrial Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
service facility,inventory system,individual customer,orbiting customer,perishable inventory system,stochastic inventory,independent exponential distribution,retrial customer,joint probability distribution,retrial customers,inventory level,lead time,random life time,positive lead time,random time,life time,steady state,markovian arrival process,phase type distribution,exponential distribution,probability distribution,system performance,random variable,satisfiability
Mathematical optimization,Exponential function,Joint probability distribution,Lead time,Markovian arrival process,Exponential distribution,Engineering,Inventory system,Expected cost,Operations management,Life time
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
54
3
Computers & Industrial Engineering
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
16
1.10
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paul Manuel122117.42
B. Sivakumar2435.94
G. Arivarignan3414.94