Order progress information: Improved dynamic emergency ordering policies

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 599-613

  Gaukler, Gary M ^a   Özer, Özalp ^b   Hausman, Warren H ^b  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency ordering; Global supply chains; Inventory control; Order progress information; RFID; Stochastic lead times; Supply chain visibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 51149115679     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3401/poms.1080.0066     Document Type: Article

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