Heuristic coordination of decentralized inventory systems using induced backorder costs

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 294-310

  Berling, Peter ^a   Marklund, Johan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Coordination; Decentralized; Inventory; Stochastic; Supply chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746145632     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2006.tb00246.x     Document Type: Article

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