Modelling two-echelon serial inventory systems with perishable items

IMA Journal of Management Mathematics

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-17

  Olsson, Fredrik ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Inventory control; Multi echelon; Perishable items; Stochastic

Indexed keywords

EID: 72249107840     PISSN: 1471678X     EISSN: 14716798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/imaman/dpp014     Document Type: Article

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