Service differentiation in spare parts supply through dedicated stocks

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 231, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 283-303

  Alvarez, Elisa M ^a   van der Heijden, Matthieu C ^a   Zijm, W Henk M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dedicated stocks; Lost sales; Multi echelon systems; Service differentiation; Spare parts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938416102     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-013-1362-z     Document Type: Article

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