Transshipments: An emerging inventory recourse to achieve supply chain leagility

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 201-212

  Herer, Yale T ^a   Tzur, Michal ^b   Yücesan, Enver ^c  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

Inventory control; Leagility; Newsvendor model; Supply chain management; Transshipments

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INVENTORY CONTROL;

LEAGILITY;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 0037065238     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-5273(02)00254-2     Document Type: Article

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