A supply chain with a service requirement for each market signal

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 322-342

  Sethi, Suresh P ^a   Yan, Houmin ^b   Zhang, Hanqin ^c   Zhou, Jing ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Customer service level; Dynamic programming; Information update; Supply chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547348067     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2007.tb00262.x     Document Type: Article

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