Case study: The inventory routing for vending machines

Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 378-389

  Miyamoto, Yuichiro ^a   Kubo, Mikio ^a  

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EID: 0347751131     PISSN: 04534514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15807/jorsj.44.378     Document Type: Article

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