Decision support for spare parts acquisition in post product life cycle

Central European Journal of Operations Research

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-42

  Inderfurth, Karl ^a   Mukherjee, Kampan ^b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES   (India)

Author keywords

Decision tree; Dynamic programming; Remanufacturing; Spare parts management

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949144314     PISSN: 1435246X     EISSN: 16139178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10100-007-0041-z     Document Type: Article

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