Consolidation of customer orders into truckloads at a large manufacturer

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 779-785

  Brown, G G ^a   Ronen, D ^b  

^a NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Logistics; Optimization; Practice of OR

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

CUSTOMER ORDERS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0031198618     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600430     Document Type: Article

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