An Inventory Model Embedded in Designing a Supply Contract

DOI10.1287/mnsc.43.2.184zbMath0889.90054MaRDI QIDQ4367204

David F. Pyke, Mordechai I. Henig, Yigal Gerchak, Ricardo Ernst

Publication date: 25 November 1997

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.43.2.184

zbMATH Keywords

Markov chain; inventory control; optimal contract; joint optimization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

90B30: Production models

90B05: Inventory, storage, reservoirs

90C39: Dynamic programming

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