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An inventory system for perishable items with by-products

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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.

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  1. University of Haifa, Department of Statistics, Haifa 31905, Israel (e-mail: dperry@stat.haifa.ac.il), , , , , , IL

    David Perry

  2. University of Osnabrück, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, 49069 Osnabrück, Germany (e-mail: wolfgang@mathematik.uni-osnabrueck.de), , , , , , DE

    Wolfgang Stadje

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Manuscript received: May 1999/final version received: November 1999

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Perry, D., Stadje, W. An inventory system for perishable items with by-products. Mathematical Methods of OR 51, 287–300 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001860050089

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