Strategic purchases of bundled products in a health care supply chain environment

Decision Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 269-293

  Ross, Anthony D ^a   Jayaraman, Vaidyanathan ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

And Mathematical Models; Health Care Supply Chains; Heuristic Procedure

Indexed keywords

EID: 65949090082     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2009.00228.x     Document Type: Article

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