On the benefits of risk pooling in inventory management

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 57-71

  Berman, Oded ^a   Krass, Dmitry ^a   Mahdi Tajbakhsh, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

distribution free approach; high demand variability; risk pooling; stochastic inventory models

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951977274     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2010.01134.x     Document Type: Article

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