Joint pricing, assortment, and inventory decisions for a retailer's product line

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 315-330

  Maddah, Bacel ^a   Bish, Ebru K ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrete choice models; Joint pricing and inventory; Marketing operations interface; Multi item newsvendor; Product variety

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS; INVENTORY LEVELS; JOINT PRICING; MULTI-ITEM NEWSVENDOR; OPERATIONS INTERFACE; PRODUCT VARIETY;

COSTS; DECISION THEORY; MARKETING; SALES; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 34047226336     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: 15206750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20209     Document Type: Article

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