Coordination of production/distribution networks with unbalanced leadtimes

Operations Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 570-577

  Bramel, Julien ^a   Goyal, Shobhna ^a   Zipkin, Paul ^b  

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

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; JUST IN TIME PRODUCTION; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TOPOLOGY;

FIXED REORDER INTERVAL; UNBALANCED LEADTIMES; ZERO LEADTIME SYSTEM;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0034221140     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.48.4.570.12422     Document Type: Article

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