The Fifth Column: On Inventory System Incentives or The Case of the Overbought Antifreeze

Robert E. D. Woolsey
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Robert E. D. Woolsey: Mathematics Department, The Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401

Interfaces, 1988, vol. 18, issue 6, 23-27

Abstract: The fifth column: on inventory system incentives or the case of the overbought antifreeze. An essay about bad planning that led to a very excessive purchase of the winter supply of antifreeze by a regional transportation district.

Keywords: inventory; production:; applications (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1988
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