Optimizing joint maintenance and stock provisioning policy for a multi-echelon spare part logistics network

Journal of the Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 289-302

  Chen, Mu Chen ^a   Hsu, Chih Ming ^b   Chen, Shih Wei ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b MINGHSIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c Taipei National Tax Administration Ministry of Finance   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Inventory rationing policy; Preventive replacement policy; Scatter search; Simulation optimization; Spare parts

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; LOGISTICS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCTIVITY;

INVENTORY RATIONING POLICY; PREVENTIVE REPLACEMENT POLICY; SCATTER SEARCH; SIMULATION-OPTIMIZATION; SPARE PARTS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 33746932832     PISSN: 10170669     EISSN: 21517606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10170660609509325     Document Type: Article

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