Constrained inventory allocation and its applications

WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 263-270

  Bradford, Phillip G ^a   Katehakis, Michael N ^b  

^a Department of Computer Science   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inventory control; Nonlinear optimization

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; INVENTORY CONTROL; MARKETING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CONSTRAINED INVENTORY ALLOCATION; CONTRACTUAL SUPPLY COMMITMENTS; NONLINEAR OPTIMIZATION;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 33751564329     PISSN: 11092769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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