Xu, Susan H.; Li, Zhaolin - In: Management Science 53 (2007) 9, pp. 1467-1485
two technology-inventory coordination schemes, one is at the strategic level, where technology and inventory decisions are … jointly made using full information. The performance gap between the two coordination schemes quantifies the value of …-inventory coordination is generally sufficient, but the operational-level coordination becomes necessary when demand variability is high and …