Heuristics for minimizing multi-zone orders in the storage assignment problem

IIE Annual Conference and Exhibition 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1529-1534

  Garfinkel, Maurice ^a   Sharp, Gunter ^a   Sokol, Joel ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Storage Assignment; Warehousing

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING; STORAGE ASSIGNMENT;

NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; WAREHOUSES;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 30044446001     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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