Serial supply chains with economies of scale: Bounds and approximations

Operations Research

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 843-853

  Shang, Kevin H ^a   Song, Jing Sheng ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximations; Batch ordering; Bounds; Inventory policies

Indexed keywords

BATCH ORDERING; INVENTORY POLICIES; SERIAL SYSTEMS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; INVENTORY CONTROL; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

SUPPLY CHAINS;

EID: 38549129331     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1070.0406     Document Type: Article

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