Synchronization of inventory and transportation under flexible vehicle constraint: A heuristics approach using sliding windows and hierarchical tree structure

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 824-836

  Pan, Zhendong ^a   Tang, Jiafu ^a   Fung, Richard Y K ^b  

^a KEY LABORATORY OF INTEGRATED AUTOMATION OF PROCESS INDUSTRY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

3rd Party logistics; Flexible vehicle constraint; Hierarchical tree; Mixed integer program; Sliding window

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COSTS; DECODING; DISTRIBUTION OF GOODS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INVENTORY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PORTALS; TREES (MATHEMATICS); VEHICLES; WINDOWS;

3RD PARTY LOGISTICS; FLEXIBLE VEHICLE CONSTRAINT; HIERARCHICAL TREE; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAM; SLIDING WINDOW;

TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 51649120332     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2007.10.011     Document Type: Article

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