Staggered ordering policy for one-warehouse, multiretailer systems

Operations Research

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 281-293

  Chen, Fangruo ^a   Samroengraja, Rungson ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Booz Allen and Hamilton Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST ACCOUNTING; HEURISTIC METHODS; INVENTORY CONTROL; RANDOM PROCESSES; RETAIL STORES; WAREHOUSES;

BASE STOCK POLICY; CURRENT PRIORITY ALLOCATION; PAST PRIORITY ALLOCATION; STAGGERED ORDERING POLICY;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0034155968     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.48.2.281.12387     Document Type: Article

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