Integrated warehouse location and inventory decisions in a three-tier distribution system

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 718-732

  Üster, Halit ^a   Keskin, Burcu B ^b   Çetinkaya, Sila ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous single facility location; Cross docking; Power of two policies; Single warehouse multi retailer inventory lot sizing; Vendor managed inventory

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INVENTORY CONTROL; LOCATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MILITARY DATA PROCESSING; MODAL ANALYSIS; POWER QUALITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOLUTIONS; WAREHOUSES;

(PL) PROPERTIES; (R ,S ,S) POLICY; ANALYTICAL PROPERTIES; COMPUTATIONAL RESULTS; COST SAVINGS; DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS; DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; EFFICIENT SOLUTIONS; HIGH QUALITY POWER; INTEGRATED DECISION; INTEGRATED WAREHOUSE; INVENTORY DECISIONS; INVENTORY MODELING; INVENTORY REPLENISHMENT; LOWER BOUNDS; POWER-OF-TWO; REPLENISHMENT POLICY; TWO TYPES; WAREHOUSE LOCATION;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 46449093923     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170701598132     Document Type: Article

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