Management of multi-item retail inventory systems with demand substitution

Operations Research

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 50-64

  Smith, Stephen A ^a   Agrawal, Narendra ^a  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INVENTORY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PLANNING; PROBABILITY; RETAIL STORES; SALES;

CUSTOMER SERVICE; DEMAND SUBSTITUTION; OPTIMAL INVENTORY LEVEL;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0033684620     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.48.1.50.12443     Document Type: Article

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