A heuristic method for the inventory routing and pricing problem in a supply chain

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1447-1456

  Liu, Shu Chu ^a   Chen, Jyun Ruei ^a  

^a NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Heuristic methods; Inventory routing and pricing problem (IRPP); Inventory routing problem (IRP); NP problem; Supply chain (SC)

Indexed keywords

DELIVERY ROUTES; INVENTORY POLICIES; INVENTORY ROUTING; INVENTORY ROUTING PROBLEMS; NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCH; NP PROBLEMS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; PRICING DECISION; PRICING PROBLEMS; ROUTING DECISIONS;

COSTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYNOMIALS; PROFITABILITY; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAINS; TABU SEARCH;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 78049530354     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2010.07.051     Document Type: Article

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