Optimizing service parts inventory in a multiechelon, multi-item supply chain with time-based customer service-level agreements

Operations Research

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 303-318

  Caggiano, Kathryn E ^a   Jackson, Peter L ^b   Muckstadt, John A ^b   Rappold, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Heuristics; Inventory production: multiechelon; Multi item; Service level constraints

Indexed keywords

LOWER BOUNDS; MULTIECHELON; NEAR-OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; SERVICE LEVEL CONSTRAINTS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; INVENTORY CONTROL; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PURCHASING;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 34247540981     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1060.0345     Document Type: Article

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