Simple models and insights for warehouse sizing

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 690-696

  Cormier, Gilles ^a   Gunn, Eldon A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Inventory; Logistics; Warehousing

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COSTS; INVENTORY CONTROL; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; STORAGE (MATERIALS); WAREHOUSES;

CONSTANT PRODUCT DEMAND; INVENTORY POLICY; NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; OBJECTIVE FUNCTION; STATIONARY DEMAND; STORAGE CAPACITY; WAREHOUSE SIZING;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0030151678     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jors.1996.80     Document Type: Article

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