Assortment planning and inventory decisions under a locational choice model

Management Science

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1528-1543

  Gaur, Vishal ^a   Honhon, Dorothée ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Assortment planning; Consumer choice models; Inventory management; Product variety; Retail operations

Indexed keywords

ASSORTMENT PLANNING; CONSUMER CHOICE MODELS; INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; PRODUCT VARIETY; RETAIL OPERATIONS;

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; INVENTORY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33749656995     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1060.0580     Document Type: Article

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