A fast heuristic for minimising total average cycle stock subject to practical constraints

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 789-796

  Silver, E A ^a   Moon, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cycle stock; Dynamic programming; Heuristic; Inventory

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; HEURISTIC METHODS; PURCHASING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

CYCLE STOCKS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 0033241750     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2600775     Document Type: Article

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