Single-warehouse multi-retailer inventory systems with full truckload shipments

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 450-464

  Jin, Yue ^a   Muriel, Ana ^b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Full truckload shipments; Logistics coordination; Multistage inventory

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTICALLY OPTIMAL; CAPACITY LIMIT; COMPUTATIONAL BURDEN; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; DECENTRALIZED SYSTEM; DYNAMIC LOT-SIZING; FIXED COST; FULL TRUCKLOAD SHIPMENTS; INVENTORY SYSTEMS; LAGRANGIAN DECOMPOSITION; MULTI-STAGE; MULTISTAGE INVENTORY; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PLANNING HORIZONS; POLYNOMIAL-TIME; SHORTEST PATH ALGORITHMS; SINGLE PRODUCT; SINGLE STAGE; TRANSPORTATION COST;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMOBILES; COMPUTATION THEORY; COST ACCOUNTING; INVENTORY CONTROL; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; TRUCK TRANSPORTATION; TRUCKS; WAREHOUSES;

SALES;

EID: 67749101933     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: 15206750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20353     Document Type: Article

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