Impacts of inventory shortage policies on transportation requirements in two-stage distribution systems

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 299-310

  Geunes, Joseph ^a   Zeng, Amy Z ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DECISION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OUTSOURCING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TRANSPORTATION ROUTES;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 0035284046     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(00)00227-7     Document Type: Article

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