(s, S) optimality in joint inventory-pricing control: An alternate approach

Operations Research

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 783-790

  Huh, Woonghee Tim ^a   Janakiraman, Ganesh ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inventory production: uncertainty, stochastic; Marketing: pricing, advertising

Indexed keywords

BACKORDERING; DEMAND MODELS; INVENTORY SYSTEMS; INVENTORY/PRODUCTION: UNCERTAINTY, STOCHASTIC; OPTIMALITY; ORDERING COSTS; PERIODIC REVIEWS; PRICING CONTROLS; PROFIT FUNCTIONS; SINGLE STAGES;

INVENTORY CONTROL; MARKETING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

COSTS;

EID: 61449109042     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1070.0462     Document Type: Article

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