A Profit-Maximizing Approach to Disposition Decisions for Product Returns

Decision Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 773-798

  Ferguson, Mark E ^a   Fleischmann, Moritz ^b   Souza, Gilvan C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Closed Loop Supply Chains; Inventory Management Coordination; Markovian Decision Processes; Yield Management

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960882407     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2011.00330.x     Document Type: Article

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