Optimal service rates of a perishable inventory system with service facility

N. Sangeetha and B. Sivakumar

International Journal of Mathematics in Operational Research, 2020, vol. 16, issue 4, 515-550

Abstract: This paper studies a continuous-review perishable inventory system with service facility. We consider a finite capacity inventory system with Markovian arrivals and exponentially distributed service times. The inventory is replenished according to an (s, S) policy and the lead times follow phase type distribution. The life time of each item is assumed to be exponential. By controlling the service rate at each instance of time, we can minimise the total expected cost rate. We formulate this model as a semi Markov decision problem. The stationary optimal policy is computed using linear programming algorithm and the results are illustrated numerically.

Keywords: inventory control; Markovian arrivals; ( s , S ) ordering policy; control of service rates; semi Markov decision process. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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