Optimal times of price reductions for an inventory model with partial backorder and vertical shift demand

RAIRO - Operations Research

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 35-47

  You, Peng Sheng ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Backorder; Deterministic demand; Inventory; Multiple discounts

Indexed keywords

COST REDUCTION; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROFITABILITY;

BACKORDERS; DETERMINISTIC DEMAND; MULTIPLE DISCOUNTS; PRICE REDUCTIONS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 34247336465     PISSN: 03990559     EISSN: 28047303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/ro:2007010     Document Type: Article

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