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Optimal feeding buffers for projects or batch supply chains by an exact generalization of the newsvendor result

Dan Trietsch The University of Auckland Business School, ISOM, Old Choral Hall, 7 Symonds Street, Auckland, New ZealandCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 627-637 | Received 01 Sep 2005, Published online: 22 Feb 2007

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