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An inventory system for perishable commodities (PIS) with finite shelf size and finite waiting room for demands is studied; the maximum shelf life and the maximum waiting time of a demand are assumed to be either constant or exponentially distributed, and the arrival rates for items and for demands are state-dependent. We determine the stationary distribution of the system and derive various kinds of cost functionals that are useful to evaluate the efficiency of the PIS.
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Manuscript received: April 1998/final version received: February 1999
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Perry, D., Stadje, W. Perishable inventory systems with impatient demands. Mathematical Methods of OR 50, 77–90 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00020928
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/PL00020928