Optimal policies for multi-echelon inventory problems with batch ordering

Operations Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 376-389

  Chen, F ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVENTORY CONTROL; MATERIALS HANDLING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION;

BATCH ORDERING; MULTIECHELON INVENTORY PROBLEM;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0034179707     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.48.3.376.12427     Document Type: Article

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