Multilocation combined pricing and inventory control

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 275-295

  Federgruen, Awi ^a   Heching, Aliza ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Pricing strategies; Two echelon system

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INVESTMENTS; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RETAIL STORES; SALES; SCHEDULING;

LEADTIME; PRICING STRATEGY; TWO-ECHELON SYSTEMS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 0036768957     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.4.4.275.5730     Document Type: Article

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