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We consider a certain class of perishable inventory systems with items and demands arriving at random times. The shelf lifetime of every item is finite and deterministic. Every demand is for a single item and is satisfied by the oldest item on the shelf, if available. Generalizing previous work, we assume that the input and/or the demand rate depend on the current value of the basic virtual outdating process (VOT). For different models of this kind we derive the steady-state distribution of the VOT and of the number of items on the shelf.
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Manuscript received: September 2003 / Final version received: December 2003
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Nahmias, S., Perry, D. & Stadje, W. Perishable inventory systems with variable input and demand rates. Math Meth Oper Res 60, 155–162 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s001860300335
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s001860300335