Inventory control in a two-level supply chain with risk pooling effect

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 135, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 116-124

  Kang, Jae Hun ^a   Kim, Yeong Dae ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Heuristic; Inventory control; Lagrangian relaxation; Risk pooling; Supply chain

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION TIME; COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; DISTRIBUTION CENTERS; HEURISTIC; INVENTORY CONTROL PROBLEMS; INVENTORY HOLDING; LAGRANGIAN RELAXATION; NON-LINEAR MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING; RISK POOLING; SUB-GRADIENT OPTIMIZATION; TEST PROBLEM; TRANSPORTATION COST; WAREHOUSE OPERATION;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INVENTORY CONTROL; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; SALES; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAINS;

WAREHOUSES;

EID: 80055035037     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2010.11.014     Document Type: Article

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