An improved heuristic for deciding on emergency transshipments

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 384-400

  Minner, Stefan ^a   Silver, Edward A ^b   Robb, David J ^c  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Distribution; Inventory; Transshipments

Indexed keywords

COSTS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INVENTORY CONTROL;

TRANSSHIPMENTS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 0037449242     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0377-2217(02)00424-1     Document Type: Article

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