Coordinating inventory control and pricing strategies with random demand and fixed ordering cost: The finite horizon case

Operations Research

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 887-896

  Chen, Xin ^a   Simchi Levi, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inventory production: uncertainty, stochastic; Marketing: pricing; Operating characteristics; Planning horizons

Indexed keywords

DEMAND AND SUPPLY; INVENTORY/PRODUCTION: UNCERTAINTY; OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; PLANNING HORIZONS; RANDOM DEMAND;

COSTS; FUNCTIONS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; PUBLIC POLICY; RANDOM PROCESSES; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 5544305307     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1040.0127     Document Type: Article

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