Impact of demand correlation and information sharing in a capacity constrained supply chain with multiple-retailers

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 552-560

  Helper, Chanel Marchi ^a   Davis, Lauren B ^a   Wei, Wenbin ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Bank of America   (United States)

Author keywords

Information sharing; Markov decision process; Supply chain

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATION MECHANISM; DEMAND CORRELATION; INFORMATION SHARING; INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; NUMERICAL STUDIES; SINGLE PRODUCT;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MARKOV PROCESSES; SALES; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAINS;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 78049378229     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2010.06.014     Document Type: Article

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