A two-echelon supply chain of a returnable product with fuzzy demand

Applied Mathematical Modelling

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 4305-4315

  Chang, Shiow Yun ^a   Yeh, Tsung Yuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Centralized strategy; Customer returns; Fuzzy demand; Order quantity; Supply chain

Indexed keywords

CENTRALIZED STRATEGY; CLOSED FORM SOLUTIONS; CUSTOMER RETURNS; EXPECTED PROFITS; FUZZY DEMAND; ORDER QUANTITY; TWO-ECHELON SUPPLY CHAIN;

MANUFACTURE; PROFITABILITY; SALES;

SUPPLY CHAINS;

EID: 84872597015     PISSN: 0307904X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apm.2012.09.043     Document Type: Article

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