Pricing and inventory control for a perishable product

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 538-542

  Li, Yanzhi ^a   Lim, Andrew ^a   Rodrigues, Brian ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Perishable; Pricing and inventory control

Indexed keywords

DECISION VARIABLES; DISCOUNTED PROFIT; FIXED LIFETIME; HEURISTIC POLICIES; INFINITE HORIZONS; INVENTORY REPLENISHMENT; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PERISHABLE; PERISHABLE PRODUCT; PRICING AND INVENTORY CONTROL;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

COSTS;

EID: 68349103155     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.1080.0238     Document Type: Article

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