Inventory decision models with competition existing between two parallel supply chains

International Journal of Services and Operations Management

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 717-736

  Zhang, Airong ^a   Guo, Xiang ^a   Zhang, Zigang ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Inventory management; Product substitution; Supply chain competition; Supply chain management; Vendor managed inventory; VMI

Indexed keywords

EID: 66149192434     PISSN: 17442370     EISSN: 17442389     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJSOM.2009.025122     Document Type: Article

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