Direct shipping and the dynamic single-depot/multi-retailer inventory system

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 509-518

  Barnes Schuster, Dawn ^a,b   Bassok, Yehuda ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Distribution; Inventory; Routing; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST ACCOUNTING; INVENTORY CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; RETAIL STORES;

ROUTING;

FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0031220213     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(96)00188-9     Document Type: Article

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