Keep or return? Managing ordering and return policies in start-up companies

DOI10.1016/J.EJOR.2006.01.044MaRDI QIDQ858418zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors T. Archibald, Lyn C. Thomas, Edgar Possani

Publication date 9 January 2007

Published in European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/files/9847746/EJOR_2007_179_97_113_keep_or_return.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

dynamic programmingMarkov processesinventory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Dynamic programming (90C39) Inventory, storage, reservoirs (90B05) Markov and semi-Markov decision processes (90C40)

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