Using inventory to handle risks in the supply of oil to Nepal

International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-60

  Thapalia, Biju Kr ^a   Wallace, Stein W ^a   Kaut, Michal ^a  

^a MOLDE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Inventory; Linear programming; Nepal; Oil supply; Risk; Stochastic programming; Supply chain; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026661927     PISSN: 17589401     EISSN: 1758941X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBPSCM.2009.026265     Document Type: Article

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