Scheduling logistic activities to improve hospital supply systems

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 624-641

  Lapierre, Sophie D ^a   Ruiz, Angel B ^b  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Hospital; Logistic; Supply chain; Tabu search; Workload balancing

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; HEURISTIC METHODS; INVENTORY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METADATA; PURCHASING; SCHEDULING;

SUPPLY CHAIN; TABU SEARCH; WORKLOAD BALANCING;

HOSPITALS;

EID: 33748291359     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2005.03.017     Document Type: Article

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