Vendor-managed inventory in a global environment with exchange rate uncertainty

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 169-174

  Lee, Jun Yeon ^a   Ren, Louie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON VICTORIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Economies of scale; Exchange rate uncertainty; State dependent (s, S) policy; Vendor managed inventory

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESULTS; ECONOMIES OF SCALE; EXCHANGE RATE UNCERTAINTY; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT; INDUSTRY PRACTICES; INVENTORY COSTS; OPTIMALITY; ORDERING COST; STATE-DEPENDENT; STATE-DEPENDENT (S, S) POLICY; STOCHASTIC INVENTORY MODEL; SUPPLY CHAIN COLLABORATION; TOTAL COSTS; VENDOR-MANAGED INVENTORY;

COSTS; ECONOMICS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

SUPPLY CHAINS;

EID: 79951723475     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2010.12.006     Document Type: Article

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