Evaluation of segmentation techniques for inventory management in large scale multi-item inventory systems

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 403-424

  Rossetti, Manuel D ^a   Achlerkar, Ashish V ^b  

^a 3202 Bell Engineering Center   (United States)

^b MCA Solutions   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Inventory segmentation; Multi echelon inventory

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954445768     PISSN: 17427967     EISSN: 17427975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJLSM.2011.039598     Document Type: Article

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