Combinatorial and quantity-discount procurement auctions benefit mars, incorporated and its suppliers

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Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 23-35

  Hohner, Gail ^a   Rich, John ^a   Ng, Ed ^a   Reid, Grant ^a   Davenport, Andrew J ^b   Kalagnanam, Jayant R ^b   Lee, Ho Soo ^b   An, Chae ^b  

^a MARS INC   (United States)

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

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EID: 0037246930     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.33.1.23.12717     Document Type: Article

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