Optimal policies for transshipping inventory in a retail network

Management Science

Volumn 51, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1519-1533

  Wee, Kwan Eng ^a   Dada, Maqbool ^b  

^a SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demand correlation; Inventory pooling; Multilocation; Transshipment policy

Indexed keywords

DEMAND CORRELATION; INVENTORY POOLING; MULTILOCATION; TRANSSHIPMENT POLICY;

CORRELATION METHODS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS; PUBLIC POLICY;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 27544491880     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1050.0441     Document Type: Review

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