The impact of (S,s) policy on supply network performance: A simulation study

International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 164-201

  Bottani, Eleonora ^a   Ferretti, Gino ^a   Montanari, Roberto ^a   Vignali, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

(S,s) policy; Design of experiments; Does; Inventory management; Performance evaluation; Simulation model; Supply chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007000578     PISSN: 17589401     EISSN: 1758941X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBPSCM.2012.048317     Document Type: Article

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