A joint optimization of product variety and ordering approach

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 25, Issue 7-8, 1998, Pages 557-566

  Jayaraman, Vaidyanathan ^a   Srivastava, Rajesh ^b   Benton, W C ^c  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inventory planning and control; Marketing; Non linear programming

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DECISION THEORY; INVENTORY CONTROL; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PURCHASING; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

ORDER QUANTITY DECISIONS;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032119053     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(98)00010-0     Document Type: Article

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