ON THE CONVEXITY OF THE BACKORDER FUNCTION FOR AN E. O. Q. POLICY,

Abstract

Under suitable assumptions Hadley and Whitin gave the average number of backorders incurred per year under an economic order policy. In this note we show that if the reorder point is restricted to be suitably large, then the backorder function is convex. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1968
Accession Number
AD0672952

Entities

People

  • John Y. Lu
  • Robin B. S. Brooks

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Statistical inference.