Creating an Inventory Hedge for Markov-Modulated Poisson Demand: An Application and Model

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 306-320

  Abhyankar, Hari S ^a   Graves, Stephen C ^a  

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Author keywords

Cyclic Demand; Master Schedule; Multiechelon Inventory Policy; Nonstationary Demand

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345975868     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.3.4.306.9970     Document Type: Article

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