Inventory management of a fast-fashion retail network

Operations Research

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 257-273

  Caro, Felipe ^a   Gallien, Jérémie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximations; Heuristics; Industries: textiles apparel; Information systems: decision support systems; Inventory production: applications

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATION PROCESS; APPROXIMATIONS; DEMAND FORECAST; INVENTORY DISTRIBUTION; INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; INVENTORY/PRODUCTION; INVENTORY/PRODUCTION: APPLICATIONS; KEY SIZES; MIXED-INTEGER PROGRAMS; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; PIECEWISE LINEAR APPROXIMATIONS; PILOT EXPERIMENT; SHORT PRODUCT;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INVENTORY CONTROL; LIFE CYCLE; PIECEWISE LINEAR TECHNIQUES; SALES; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

RETAIL STORES;

EID: 77951202135     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1090.0698     Document Type: Article

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