A profit-maximization model for a retailer's stocking decisions on products subject to sudden obsolescence

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 288-294

  Joglekar, Prafulla ^a   Lee, Patrick ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Inventory model; Profit maximization model; Quantity discount; Sudden obsolescence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008793408     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.1996.tb00400.x     Document Type: Article

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