Procurement planning to maintain both short-term adaptiveness and long-term perspective

Management Science

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 769-786

  Bonser, Jewel S ^a,b   David Wu, S ^a,b  

^a Pennsylvania Power and Light   (United States)

^b Lehigh University   (United States)

Author keywords

Contracting; Planning Under Uncertainty; Procurement; Stochastic Optimization

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONTRACTS; DECISION MAKING; FUELS; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PURCHASING; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

FUEL PROCUREMENT PLANNING;

ELECTRIC UTILITIES;

EID: 0035382006     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.47.6.769.9814     Document Type: Article

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