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A Note on Minimax Mixture of Distributions Free Procedure for Inventory Model with Variable Lead Time

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In recent papers, Moon and Choi (1998) and Hariga and Ben-Daya (1999)considered a continuous review inventory model with a mixture of backordersand lost sales in which the lead time, the order quantity, and the reorder pointare decision variables was studied. Moreover, they also develop a minimaxdistribution free procedure for the problem. While the demands of differentcustomers are not identical in the lead time, then we can't only use a singledistribution (such as Moon & Choi (1998) and Hariga & Ben-Daya (1999))to describe the demand of the lead time. Hence, we correct and extend the modelof Moon and Choi (1998) and Hariga and Ben-Daya (1999) by considering thelead time demand with the mixture of distributions. In addition, we also applythe minimax mixture of distributions free approach to the model by simultaneouslyoptimizing the order quantity, the reorder point, and the lead time to devise a practical procedure which can be used without specific information on demand distribution.

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  1. Department of Statistics, Tamkang University, Tamsui, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

    Jong-Wuu Wu

  2. Department of Business Administration, Ming Chuan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

    Wen-Chuan Lee

  3. Graduate Institute of Management Science, Ming Chuan University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

    Hui-Yin Tsai

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Wu, JW., Lee, WC. & Tsai, HY. A Note on Minimax Mixture of Distributions Free Procedure for Inventory Model with Variable Lead Time. Quality & Quantity 36, 311–323 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016084604470

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