Optimal planning quantities for product transition

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 142-155

  Li, Hongmin ^a   Graves, Stephen C ^b   Rosenfield, Donald B ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Inventory planning; New product introduction; Product transition; Substitution

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950950192     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2009.01091.x     Document Type: Article

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