Evolution of operating parameters for multiple vendors multiple buyers vendor managed inventory system with outsourcing

Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 597-618

  Nachiappan, S P ^a   Jawahar, N ^a   Arunkumar, A C ^a  

^a THIAGARAJAR COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

Author keywords

Meta Heuristics; Pricing; Simulated Annealing; Soft issues; Supply Chain Management; Vendor managed inventory

Indexed keywords

EID: 56649096218     PISSN: 15475816     EISSN: 1553166X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/jimo.2007.3.597     Document Type: Article

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