An index heuristic for transshipment decisions in multi-location inventory systems based on a pairwise decomposition

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 69-78

  Archibald, T W ^a   Black, D ^a   Glazebrook, K D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decomposition; Dynamic programming; Inventory; Stochastic models; Transshipment

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; INVENTORY CONTROL; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

DECOMPOSITION; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; INVENTORY; STOCHASTIC MODELS; TRANSSHIPMENT;

LOCATION;

EID: 50849141388     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2007.09.019     Document Type: Article

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