A probabilistic analysis of a fixed partition policy for the inventory-routing problem

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 925-948

  Anily, Shoshaha ^a   Bramel, Julien ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIXED PARTITION POLICIES (FPP); INVENTORY ROUTING PROBLEMS (IRP); TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; VENDOR MANAGED INVENTORY (VMI);

COSTS; LOGISTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANNING; POLYNOMIALS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 6344267061     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20031     Document Type: Article

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