Supply chain management of perishable products with applications to healthcare

Supply chains for time-sensitive products, and, in particular, for perishable products, pose specific and unique challenges. By definition, a perishable product has a limited lifetime during which it can be used, after which it should be discarded (Federgruen, Prastacos, and Zipkin (1986)). In this...

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Main Author: Masoumi, Amirhossein
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2013
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3589090