Heuristic for a single period single product closed loop supply chain

International Journal of Enterprise Network Management

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 311-324

  Rangwani, Neelesh ^a   Subramanian, P ^a   Ramkumar, N ^a   Narendran, T T ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Closed loop supply chain; ILP; Integer linear programme; VAM TOC heuristic

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960205514     PISSN: 17481252     EISSN: 17481260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJENM.2011.041159     Document Type: Article

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