Designing distribution patterns for long-term inventory routing with constant demand rates

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 255-263

  Raa, Birger ^a   Aghezzaf, El Houssaine ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Column generation; Cyclic planning; Delivery scheduling; Inventory routing; Vendor managed inventory

Indexed keywords

INVENTORY CONTROL; NETWORK ROUTING; SCHEDULING; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

COLUMN GENERATION; CYCLIC PLANNING; DELIVERY SCHEDULING; INVENTORY ROUTING;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 38749094793     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2006.08.023     Document Type: Article

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