Combined pricing and inventory control under uncertainty

Operations Research

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 454-475

  Federgruen, Awi ^a   Heching, Aliza ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FUNCTIONS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PURCHASING; RANDOM PROCESSES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

INVENTORY REPLENISHMENT STRATEGIES; STOCHASTIC DEMAND FUNCTIONS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 0032674986     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.47.3.454     Document Type: Article

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