Supply Chain Management with Guaranteed Delivery

Management Science

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1154-1167

  Huggins, Eric Logan ^a   Olsen, Tava Lennon ^b  

^a FORT LEWIS COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Expediting; Inventory; Markov Decision Processes; Overtime; Supply Chain Coordination

Indexed keywords

COSTS; FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION; INVENTORY CONTROL; NUMERICAL METHODS; PUBLIC POLICY;

SUPPLY CHAIN;

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE;

EID: 0142031579     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.49.9.1154.16573     Document Type: Article

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