Duality and existence of optimal policies in generalized joint replenishment

Daniel Adelman*, Diego Klabjan

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We establish a duality theory for a broad class of deterministic inventory control problems on continuous spaces that includes the classical joint replenishment problem and inventory routing. Using this theory, we establish the existence of an optimal policy, which has been an open question. We show how a primal-dual pair of infinite dimensional linear programs encode both cyclic and noncyclic schedules, and provide various results regarding cyclic schedules, including an example showing that they need not be optimal.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)28-50
Number of pages23
JournalMathematics of Operations Research
Volume30
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 2005

Keywords

  • Cyclic schedule
  • Deterministic inventory theory
  • Existence of optimal policies
  • Infinite linear programming duality
  • Semi-Markov decision process

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Mathematics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Management Science and Operations Research

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