The coordination of fashion supply chains with a risk-averse supplier under the markdown money policy

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 266-276

  Shen, Bin ^a   Choi, Tsan Ming ^a   Wang, Yulan ^a   Lo, Chris K Y ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Apparel supply chain; Markdown money policy (MMP); Mean variance (MV) analysis; Risk averse

Indexed keywords

APPAREL SUPPLY CHAINS; MARKDOWN MONEY; MEAN VARIANCE; OPTIMAL DECISIONS; OPTIMAL ORDERING; RISK AVERSE; RISK NEUTRALS;

OPTIMIZATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUPPLY CHAINS; GARMENT INDUSTRY; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

RISK ANALYSIS;

EID: 84877270056     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2012.2204739     Document Type: Article

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