Performance measurement for inventory routing

Transportation Science

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 44-54

  Song, Jin Hwa ^a   Savelsbergh, Martin ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Inventory routing; Linear programming; Performance measurement

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

DISTRIBUTION STRATEGY; INVENTORY ROUTING; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 34247511509     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: 15265447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.1060.0175     Document Type: Article

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