A supply chain model with reverse information exchange

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 360-378

  Jain, Apurva ^a   Moinzadeh, Kamran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Information sharing; Markov chains; State dependent base stock; Stochastic production inventory system

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SHARING; STATE-DEPENDENT BASE STOCK; STOCHASTIC PRODUCTION-INVENTORY SYSTEMS;

COMPUTATION THEORY; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INVENTORY CONTROL; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PUBLIC POLICY; RETAIL STORES; WAREHOUSES;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 28244473790     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1050.0084     Document Type: Article

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