Controlling inventories in divergent supply chains with advance-order information

Operations Research

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 988-1010

  Marklund, Johan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Advance order information; Allocation; Inventory production; Multiechelon; Reservation; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

ADVANCE-ORDER INFORMATION; MULTIECHELON; RESERVATION; STOCK ALLOCATION;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; RANDOM PROCESSES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 33749592426     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1060.0319     Document Type: Article

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