Lateral inventory transshipment problem in online-to-offline supply chain

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1951-1963

  Zhao, Fuguo ^a   Wu, Desheng ^b,c   Liang, Liang ^d   Dolgui, Alexandre ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^e ECOLE DES MINES DE SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

Author keywords

demand uncertainty; dual channel supply chain; inventory transshipment; online to offline (OTO)

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COMMERCIAL MODELS; DEMAND DISTRIBUTION; DEMAND UNCERTAINTY; DUAL CHANNEL SUPPLY CHAIN; INVENTORY TRANSSHIPMENT; OFFLINE; TRANSSHIPMENT PROBLEM; UNCERTAIN MARKETS;

SUPPLY CHAINS;

EID: 84938613458     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2015.1070971     Document Type: Article

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