The metered inventory routing problem, an integrative heuristic algorithm

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 51, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 69-81

  Herer, Yale T ^a   Levy, Roberto ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Inventory routing; Temporal heuristic; Vehicle routing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INVENTORY CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; VALUE ENGINEERING; WAREHOUSES;

METERED INVENTORY ROUTING PROBLEM (MIRP);

DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS;

EID: 0031208116     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-5273(97)00059-5     Document Type: Article

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