Coordinating inventory control and pricing strategies: The continuous review model

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 323-332

  Chen, Xin ^a   Simchi Levi, David ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous review; Fixed cost; Inventory; Pricing; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

COSTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PUBLIC POLICY;

CONTINUOUS REVIEW; FIXED COST; PRICING; STOCHASTIC;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 32644449642     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orl.2005.04.012     Document Type: Article

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