Optimizing Inventory Management Costs in Supply Chains by Determining Safety Stock Placement

Subject Areas : Business Administration and Entrepreneurship

Abdollah Arasteh ¹

1 - Department of Industrial Engineering, Babol Noshirvani University of Technology, Babol, Iran

Received: 2020-01-15 Accepted : 2021-04-20 Published : 2022-06-01

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