Newsvendor bounds and heuristics for serial supply chains with regular and expedited shipping

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 71-87

  Zhou, Sean X ^a   Chao, Xiuli ^b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bounds and heuristics; Echelon base stock policy; Multi echelon systems; Regular and expedited shipping

Indexed keywords

BASE STOCK POLICY; COMPARATIVE STATICS; CONVEX FUNCTIONS; HEURISTIC SOLUTIONS; INFINITE HORIZONS; INVENTORY POLICIES; LOWER AND UPPER BOUNDS; MULTIECHELON; NEWSVENDOR BOUND; NEWSVENDORS; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; TOPDOWN; TRANSPORTATION MODE;

CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; INVENTORY CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; SUPPLY CHAINS;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 75149144013     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: 15206750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20388     Document Type: Article

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