Coordinated replenishment strategies in inventory/distribution systems

Management Science

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 293-307

  Gürbüz, Mustafa Çagri ^a,b   Moinzadeh, Kamran ^c   Zhou, Yong Pin ^c  

^a MIT Zaragoza International Logistics Program   (Spain)

^b IE BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Inventory management; Multiechelon inventory systems; Order coordination; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; MULTIECHELON INVENTORY SYSTEMS; ORDER COORDINATION; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

DATA WAREHOUSES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INVENTORY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RETAIL STORES;

STRATEGIC PLANNING;

EID: 33847332080     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1060.0627     Document Type: Article

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