Inventory policies in a decentralized assembly system

Operations Research

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 324-336

  Bernstein, Fernando ^a   Decroix, Gregory A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Games group decisions: Noncooperative; Inventory production: Multi item echelon stage; Policies: Review lead times; Uncertainty: Stochastic

Indexed keywords

BASE-STOCK POLICY; DECENTRALIZED ASSEMBLY SYSTEM; ECHELON; PIPELINE INVENTORY;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COSTS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 33645575004     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1050.0256     Document Type: Article

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