Value of information in capacitated supply chains

Management Science

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 16-24

  Gavirneni, Srinagesh ^a   Kapuscinski, Roman ^a   Tayur, Sridhar ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

(s, S) Policy; Capacitated Production Inventory Model; Infinitesimal Perturbation Analysis; Information Sharing; Optimal Policies

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

CAPACITATED PRODUCTION-INVENTORY MODELS; CAPACITATED SUPPLY CHAINS; INFINITESIMAL PERTURBATION ANALYSIS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 0032665038     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.45.1.16     Document Type: Article

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