Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1142416 | Operations Research Letters | 2013 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
We analyze lateral transshipment for items whose demand is driven by an arbitrary point process. We find conditions under which lateral transshipment stochastically lowers the cost of a system of demand centers. Our main structural result is that transshipment works best for slow-moving items, such as spare-parts, when the demands are driven by non-homogeneous or homogeneous Poisson processes. We also obtain general results that apply when demand is driven by an arbitrary point process.
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Authors
Anand Paul, Arda Yenipazarli,