Quantity discount-based inventory coordination: Effectiveness and critical environmental factors

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 63-76

  Shin, Hojung ^a   Benton, W C ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Inventory coordination; Quantity discounts; Simulation; Supply management

Indexed keywords

EID: 5644266451     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2004.tb00145.x     Document Type: Article

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