Inventory rationing and shipment flexibility alternatives for direct market firms

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 441-457

  Cattani, Kyle D ^a,b   Souza, Gilvan C ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct market channels; Markov processes chains; Stochastic inventory rationing models; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242622196     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2002.tb00471.x     Document Type: Article

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