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Multi-echelon inventory theory — A retrospective

✍ Scribed by Andrew J. Clark

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1994
Tongue: English
Weight: 450 KB
Volume: 35
Category: Article
ISSN: 0925-5273
DOI: 10.1016/0925-5273(94)90092-2

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✦ Synopsis

One of the earliest studies of the multi-echelon inventory problem was by Clark-Scarf in 1969. An accounting is given of the events leading to this work and the main results are summarized.

Subsequent extension of the multi-echelon inventory are outlined and areas of current and future applications are discussed.

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