Decision support for the single-period inventory problem

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 61-66

  Walker, John ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST ACCOUNTING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPREADSHEETS; WORD PROCESSING;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE WINDOWS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 0033721756     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02635570010319693     Document Type: Article

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