Pricing in a vendor managed inventory system

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 19-37

  Nachiappan, S P ^a   Jawahar, N ^a   Ganesh, M ^b  

^a THIAGARAJAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Heuristic algorithm; Pricing; Revenue sharing; Supply chain management; Vendor managed inventory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745902518     PISSN: 17427967     EISSN: 17427975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJLSM.2006.008215     Document Type: Article

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