Corporate holding of finished goods inventories

Journal of Economics and Business

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 255-266

  Blazenko, George W ^a   Vandezande, Kirk ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Solutions by Sequence Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Inventory; Stock out avoidance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038457679     PISSN: 00129933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0148-6195(03)00023-7     Document Type: Article

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