Quantity discounts under demand uncertainty

Management Science

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 777-792

  Altintas, Nihat ^a   Erhun, Feryal ^b   Tayur, Sridhar ^c  

^a LEHMAN BROTHERS   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

All unit quantity discounts; Inventory management; Minimum order quantity; Periodic review policies; Stochastic demand

Indexed keywords

ALL-UNIT QUANTITY DISCOUNTS; INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; MINIMUM-ORDER QUANTITY; PERIODIC REVIEW POLICIES; STOCHASTIC DEMAND;

INVENTORY CONTROL; RANDOM PROCESSES; STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; TRANSPORTATION CHARGES;

SALES;

EID: 61849121207     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1070.0829     Document Type: Article

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