The evaluation of drop shipping option for e-commerce retailers

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 109-126

  Khouja, Moutaz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drop shipping; e Commerce; Inventory management

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; INVENTORY CONTROL; MATERIALS HANDLING; OBSOLESCENCE; OPTIMIZATION;

DROP SHIPPING;

ELECTRONIC COMMERCE;

EID: 0035501496     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-8352(01)00046-8     Document Type: Article

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