Integrated inventory pooling for firms servicing both on-line and store demand

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1465-1480

  Bendoly, Elliot ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic commerce; Inventory management; Non linear optimization; Simulation meta modeling

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; OPTIMIZATION; SALES; WAREHOUSES;

INVENTORY POOLING; META-MODELS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

INVENTORY;

EID: 1842502962     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-0548(03)00102-3     Document Type: Article

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