Optimal batch provisioning to customers subject to a delay-limit

Management Science

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 684-697

  Berg, Menachem ^a   Van Der Duyn Schouten, Frank ^a   Jansen, Jorg ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECISION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

BATCH PROVISIONING; DELAY LIMITS;

VALUE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032075483     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.44.5.684     Document Type: Article

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