Warehouse-retailer network design problem

Operations Research

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Teo, Chung Piaw ^a   Shu, Jia ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Facilities equipment planning: location; Models, programming: integer; Transportation

Indexed keywords

INVENTORY COSTS; MULTIECHELON INVENTORY; PROGRAMMING: INTEGER; FACILITIES/EQUIPMENT PLANNING: LOCATION;

COSTS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INVENTORY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TRANSPORTATION; WAREHOUSES;

DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS;

COSTS; DISTRIBUTION; INVENTORY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; TRANSPORT; WARE HOUSES;

EID: 19744374973     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1030.0096     Document Type: Article

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