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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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2013
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Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3589090 |