The impact of supplier inventory service level on retailer demand

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 461-474

  Craig, Nathan ^a   DeHoratius, Nicole ^b   Raman, Ananth ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical research; Inventory theory and control; Retailing; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FIELD WORKS; INVENTORY THEORY; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; PERCENTAGE POINTS; RETAILING; SERVICE LEVELS;

SALES;

EID: 84990877542     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: 15265498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.2016.0582     Document Type: Article

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