Improved profit functions for newsvendor models with normally distributed demand

International Journal of Procurement Management

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 20-36

  Hu, Jianli ^a   Munson, Charles L ^b  

^a CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Applied probability; Inventory; Newsvendor model; Normal distribution; Procurement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878639424     PISSN: 17538432     EISSN: 17538440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJPM.2011.037383     Document Type: Article

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