Efficient heuristics for inventory placement in acyclic networks

Computers and Operations Research

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2899-2904

  Shu, Jia ^a   Karimi, I A ^b,c  

^a Southeast University   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c The Logistics Institute Asia Pacific   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Heuristics; Inventory; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

ACYCLIC NETWORKS; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; CONCAVE MINIMIZATIONS; FINITE SERIES; HEURISTICS; INVENTORY; NETWORK SIZES; SAFETY STOCK PLACEMENTS; SAFETY STOCKS; SOLUTION QUALITIES; SUPPLY CHAIN NETWORKS;

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; PLASMA WAVES; SUPPLY CHAINS;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 64549098640     PISSN: 03050548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2009.01.001     Document Type: Article

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