Decentralized multiechelon inventory control

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 370-386

  Andersson, Jonas ^a   Axsäter, Sven ^a,b   Marklund, Johan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Decentralization; Inventory production; Multiechelon; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

EID: 0004543268     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.1998.tb00130.x     Document Type: Article

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