An empirical investigation of costs in batching decisions

Decision Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 79-103

  Rummel, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Lot sizing and performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034416627     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2000.tb00925.x     Document Type: Article

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