Supply Chain Inventory Management and the Value of Shared Information
✍ Scribed by Cachon, Gérard P.; Fisher, Marshall
- Book ID
- 121532458
- Publisher
- INFORMS
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 631 KB
- Volume
- 46
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0025-1909
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