A Portfolio Approach for Purchasing Systems: Impact of Switching Point

In operations management different ordering policies, such as, economic order quantity, lot for lot and periodic ordering, are used in various combinations without deeper considerations for the likely consequences on cash flow and profitability. The success of these techniques is analyzed through in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hilmola, Olli-Pekka, Ma, Hongze, Datta, Shoumen Palit Austin
Format: Working Paper
Language:en_US
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/102861