Managing Broader Product Lines through Delayed Differentiation Using Vanilla Boxes

DOI10.1287/mnsc.44.12.S161zbMath1004.90040OpenAlexW2162581541WikidataQ56603350 ScholiaQ56603350MaRDI QIDQ2784099

Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Sridhar R. Tayur

Publication date: 16 October 2002

Published in: Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.44.12.s161

zbMATH Keywords

inventory management product variety component commonality stochastic integer programs demand correlation stochastic multi-product assembly systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integer programming (90C10) Stochastic programming (90C15) Management decision making, including multiple objectives (90B50) Production models (90B30) Inventory, storage, reservoirs (90B05)

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