Matching Supply and Demand; The Value of a Second Chance in Producing Hybrid Seed Corn

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 122-137

  Jones, Philip C ^a   Lowe, Timothy J ^a   Traub, Rodney D ^a   Kegler, Greg ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Agricultural Modeling; Newsvendor Model; Optimization; Production Inventory Model; Supply Chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012891355     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.3.2.122.9992     Document Type: Article

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