Optimal Policies for a Multi-Echelon Inventory Problem

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• Publication year

  1960

• Venue

  Management Sciences

• Publication date

  1960-07-01

• Fields of study

  Business, Economics, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.1287/mnsc.1040.0265
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• Studies in the Mathematical Theory of Inventory and Production, by K.J. Arrow, S. Karlin, H. Scarf with contributions by M.J. Beckmann, J. Gessford, R.F. Muth. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1958, X p.340p., $ 8.75.

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