Assemble-to-Order Inventory Management via Stochastic Programming: Chained BOMs and the M-System

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 446-468

  Doğru, Mustafa K ^a   Reiman, Martin I ^b   Wang, Qiong ^c  

^a Verizon Wireless   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

assemble to Order; asymptotic optimality; bill of materials; discrete convexity; stochastic programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 85000799333     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: 19375956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/poms.12658     Document Type: Article

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