An integrated equal-lots policy for shipping a vendor's final production batch to a single buyer under linearly decreasing demand

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 185-188

  Omar, Mohd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Inventory; Linearly decreasing demand; Production; Single buyer; Single vendor

Indexed keywords

FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION; SUPPLY CHAINS;

DEMAND RATES; FINITE RATES; INVENTORY; LINEARLY DECREASING DEMAND; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; OPTIMAL POLICIES; PRODUCTION BATCHES; SINGLE BUYER; SINGLE VENDOR; TOTAL COSTS;

SALES;

EID: 61449195305     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2008.08.020     Document Type: Article

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