Untruthful probabilistic demand forecasts in vendor-managed revenue-sharing contracts: Coordinating the chain

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 742-749

  Gerchak, Yigal ^a   Khmelnitsky, Eugene ^a   Robinson, Lawrence W ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management

Author keywords

Probabilistic forecasts; Revenue sharing contracts; Truthfulness; Vendor managed contracts

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DECISION MAKING; INVENTORY CONTROL; PROBABILISTIC LOGICS; SALES;

PROBABILISTIC FORECASTS; REVENUE-SHARING CONTRACTS; TRUTHFULNESS; VENDOR-MANAGED CONTRACTS;

CONTRACTS;

EID: 34948853275     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: 15206750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20249     Document Type: Article

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