Flexibility or cost saving? Sourcing decisions with two suppliers

Decision Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 623-650

  Chung, Wenming ^a   Talluri, Srinivas ^b   Narasimhan, Ram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dual sourcing; Quantity flexibility contract; Supply chain contracts; System performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955938717     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2010.00283.x     Document Type: Article

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