Forecasting and inventory management of short life-cycle products

Operations Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 131-150

  Kurawarwala, Abbas A ^a   Matsuo, Hirofumi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURE; FORECASTING; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INVENTORY CONTROL; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; PERSONAL COMPUTER MANUFACTURING; SHORT LIFE CYCLE PRODUCTS; UNCERTAINTY;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0029780182     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.44.1.131     Document Type: Article

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