Emergency transshipment in decentralized dealer Networks: When to send and accept transshipment requests

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 547-567

  Zhao, Hui ^a   Deshpande, Vinayak ^a   Ryan, Jennifer K ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralized inventory sharing; Inventory transshipment; Make to stock queues; Production inventory systems

Indexed keywords

DECENTRALIZED INVENTORY SHARING; INVENTORY TRANSSHIPMENT; MAKE TO STOCK QUEUES; PRODUCTION/INVENTORY SYSTEMS;

DECENTRALIZED CONTROL; DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 33748333488     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: 15206750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20160     Document Type: Article

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