Improving a supplier's quantity discount gain from many different buyers

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1071-1079

  Wang, Qinan ^a   Wu, Zhang ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DECISION MAKING; GAME THEORY;

PRICING; STACKELBERG GAME;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034311590     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170008967462     Document Type: Article

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