Comparing strategies for addressing delivery shortages in stochastic demand settings

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 25-41

  Haughton, Michael A ^a   Stenger, Alan J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; LOGISTICS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; SUPPLY CHAINS;

COST ELEMENTS; CUSTOMER DEMANDS; DELIVERY ROUTES; LOGISTICS NETWORK; PERIOD-TO-PERIOD FLUCTUATIONS; PREDICTION MODELLING; RANDOM PERIODS; STOCHASTIC-DEMAND; SUPPLY CHAIN COSTS; TRANSPORTATION COST;

RETAIL STORES;

TRANSPORTATION ECONOMICS; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

EID: 0033006904     PISSN: 13665545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1366-5545(98)00021-0     Document Type: Article

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