On the integrated production and distribution problem with bidirectional flows

INFORMS Journal on Computing

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 585-598

  Lei, Lei ^a   Zhong, Hua ^b   Chaovalitwongse, Art W ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING   (United States)

Author keywords

Bidirectional flows; Heuristic; Integrated production and distribution; Partial linear programming relaxation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449484298     PISSN: 10919856     EISSN: 15265528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/ijoc.1080.0311     Document Type: Article

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