A simple improvement on silver's heuristic for the joint replenishment problem

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1415-1421

  Nilsson, A ^a   Silver, E A ^b,c  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coordinated replenishments; Heuristics; Inventory; Joint replenishment

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; SILVER;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; HEURISTICS; IMPROVE PERFORMANCE; INVENTORY; JOINT REPLENISHMENT; JOINT REPLENISHMENT PROBLEM; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; TEACHING MATERIALS;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 51349119997     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602446     Document Type: Article

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