The production size and inventory policy for a manufacturer in a two-echelon inventory model

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1181-1196

  Lin, Chinho ^a   Lin, Yihsu ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c SOUTHERN TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Newsboy model; Periodical products; Two echelon inventory model

Indexed keywords

COSTS; MANAGEMENT SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBLEM SOLVING; RAW MATERIALS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

NEWSBOY MODELS; PERIODICAL PRODUCTS; PRODUCTION SIZE; TWO-ECHELON INVENTORY MODELS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 7544222054     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2003.10.003     Document Type: Article

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