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Supply Chain Planning Under Uncertainty

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Many organizations are faced with a constantly changing, uncertain economic environment and progressively shorter product life cycles. In addition complex corporate joint venture alternatives need to be evaluated and requests for increasingly stiffer service levels have to be taken into consideration.

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Lucas, C., Mitra, G., Mirhassani, S.A. (1999). Supply Chain Planning Under Uncertainty. In: Hadjiconstantinou, E. (eds) Quick Response in the Supply Chain. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59997-2_10

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