Warehouse sizing to minimize inventory and storage costs

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 299-312

  Goh, Mark ^a   Jihong, Ou ^a   Chung Piaw, Teo ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Inventory control; Joint replenishment; Third party warehousing; Warehouse size

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ECONOMICS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INVENTORY CONTROL;

JOINT REPLENISHMENT; STOCK KEEPING UNIT; THIRD PARTY WAREHOUSING; WAREHOUSE SIZING; WAREHOUSING COSTS;

WAREHOUSES;

EID: 0035371599     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.10     Document Type: Article

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