Purchase contract management with demand forecast updates

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 775-785

  Huang, Hongyan ^a   Sethi, Suresh P ^b   Yan, Houmin ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRACTS; DECISION MAKING; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

DEMAND FORECAST; PURCHASE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT;

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE;

EID: 22944477701     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170590961157     Document Type: Article

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