Modeling and simulation of a hierarchical, distributed, dynamic inventory management scheme

Simulation

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 340-362

  Chen, Ling Rong ^a   Ghosh, Sumit ^b  

^a VERIZON   (United States)

^b Arizona State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost function minimization; Distributed algorithms; EOQ models; Inventory management; Optimization; Retail network

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECISION MAKING; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; RETAIL STORES;

ECONOMIC ORDER QUANTITY (EOQ) MODELS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 0031166740     PISSN: 00375497     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003754979706800601     Document Type: Article

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