Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1142682 Operations Research Letters 2008 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

We consider supplier diversification in an EOQ type inventory setting with multiple suppliers and binomial yields. We characterize the optimal policy for the model and show that, in this case, it does not pay to diversify, in contrast to previous results in the random yield literature.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
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