An inventory model embedded in designing a supply contract

Management Science

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 184-189

  Henig, Mordechai ^a   Gerchak, Yigal ^a   Ernst, Ricardo ^a   Pyke, David F ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Dynamic Programming: Applications; Inventory Production: Stochastic; Markov Processes; Probability; Transportation: Models

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; MARKETING; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; TRANSPORTATION;

SUPPLY CONTRACT; TRANSPORTATION CONTRACT;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 0031062064     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.43.2.184     Document Type: Article

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