Effectiveness of stock transshipment under various demand distributions and nonnegligible transshipment times

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 183-198

  Tagaras, George ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Vlachos, Dimitrios ^a,b,g,h  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Department of Civil Engineering   (Greece)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e INSEAD   (France)

^f ASQ   (Greece)

^g ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^h INFORMS ^*

Author keywords

Distribution; Inventory control; Lateral transshipment; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011511083     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2002.tb00490.x     Document Type: Article

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