Efficient heuristics for two-echelon spare parts inventory systems with an aggregate mean waiting time constraint per local warehouse

OR Spectrum

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 699-722

  Wong, Hartanto ^a   Kranenburg, Bram ^b   Van Houtum, Geert Jan ^c   Cattrysse, Dirk ^d  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Centre for Quantitative Methods   (Netherlands)

^c EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Heuristics; Inventory; Multi echelon; Multi item; Spare parts

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547219343     PISSN: 01716468     EISSN: 14366304     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00291-007-0077-4     Document Type: Article

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