Inventory Control System for a Healthcare Apparel Service Centre with Stockout Risk: A Case Analysis

Table 1

The literature positioning of this paper.

Papers	Stochastic demand?	(Q,r) policy?	Heuristic solution?	Partial backlog?	Space constraint?	Waiting time?	Service level?	Healthcare related?
Federgruen and Zheng [2], Forsberg [17]	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Silver [8], Goyal and Satir [6], Browne and Zipkin [4], Eynan and Krop [5], Tarim and Kingsman [9], Ben-Daya and Noman [3], He et al. [10], Li et al. [11]	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Lau and Lau [7]	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Forsberg [17], Zheng [44], Lau et al. [45], Song et al. [12], Berk and Gürler [13], Axäter [14], Axäter [15], Axäter [16]	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Montgomery et al. [23]	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Kim and Park [24]	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Moinzadeh [25]	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Rabinowitz et al. [26]	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Hu et al. [27]	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Bertrand [28], Wein [29], Yano [30], Duenyas and Hopp [31], Kut and Song [32]	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Axsäter [33]	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Zhang et al. [34]	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Platt et al. [38], Gallego [37], Yang et al. [36]	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Jha and Shanker [40], Chu et al. [41], Lee et al. [42], Ouyang et al. [43]	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Buzacott and Shanthikumar [18], Wang et al. [22]	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Özer and Wei [21]	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No
This paper	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes