Assessing the impact of inventory inaccuracies within a Newsvendor framework

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 197, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1108-1118

  Sahin, Evren ^a   Dallery, Yves ^a  

^a LGI   (France)

Author keywords

Execution errors; Inaccuracy; Inventory control; Newsvendor model

Indexed keywords

BAR CODES; INVENTORY CONTROL; SCANNING; WAREHOUSES;

ADDITIONAL COSTS; BAR-CODE SCANNING; BARCODE; DATA CAPTURE TECHNOLOGIES; ECONOMIC IMPACTS; EFFICIENCY LOSS; EXECUTION ERRORS; INACCURACY; INFORMATION CONCERNING; INVENTORY DATUM; INVENTORY ERRORS; INVENTORY INACCURACIES; INVENTORY LEVELS; NEWSVENDOR; NEWSVENDOR MODEL; PHYSICAL QUANTITIES;

ERRORS;

EID: 62149120167     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2008.03.042     Document Type: Article

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