Safety stock placement in supply chains with demand forecast updates

Operations Research Perspectives

Volumn 3, Issue , 2016, Pages 27-31

  Boulaksil, Youssef ^a  

^a UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Demand uncertainty; Safety stocks; Simulation based optimization; Supply chains

Indexed keywords

EID: 84983410611     PISSN: 22147160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orp.2016.07.001     Document Type: Article

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