Centralized planning models for multi-echelon inventory systems under uncertainty

Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science

Volumn 4, Issue C, 1993, Pages 133-173

  Federgruen, A ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

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EID: 77957084948     PISSN: 09270507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-0507(05)80183-5     Document Type: Review

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