Unraveling quantity discounts

Omega

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 510-521

  Schotanus, Fredo ^a   Telgen, Jan ^a   de Boer, Luitzen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bidding; Decision support systems; Forecasting; Heuristics; Operations management

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SALES;

BIDDING; COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS; HEURISTIC; LOT-SIZE; NEGOTIATION PROCESS; OPERATION MANAGEMENT; PURCHASE PRICE; PURCHASING GROUPS; QUANTITY DISCOUNT; SUPPLIER SELECTION PROCESS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 50349083992     PISSN: 03050483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2007.09.002     Document Type: Article

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