An efficient optimal solution method for the joint replenishment problem with minimum order quantities

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1595-1615

  Porras, Eric ^a   Dekker, Rommert ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Inventory; Joint replenishment; Minimum order quantities

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR CORRECTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

INVENTORY; JOINT REPLENISHMENT; JOINT REPLENISHMENT PROBLEMS (JRP); MINIMUM ORDER QUANTITIES;

OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 33746851250     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2005.02.056     Document Type: Article

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