A new algorithm and a new heuristic for serial supply systems

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 349-362

  Gallego, Guillermo ^a   Özer, Özalp ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi echelon; Newsvendor bound; Stochastic inventory systems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BENCHMARKING; COSTS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES;

MULTI-ECHELON; NEWSVENDOR BOUND; SERIAL SUPPLY SYSTEMS; STOCHASTIC INVENTORY SYSTEMS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 14844295426     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orl.2004.09.001     Document Type: Article

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