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

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

Published Online:1 Dec 1988https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.18.6.23

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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.

Volume 18, Issue 6

November-December 1988

Pages 1-138

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Published Online:December 01, 1988

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Robert E. D. Woolsey, (1988) The Fifth Column: On Inventory System Incentives or The Case of the Overbought Antifreeze. Interfaces 18(6):23-27.

https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.18.6.23

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inventory production: applications

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