Perishable inventory management system with a minimum volume constraint

Journal of the Operational Research Society

Volumn 62, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2063-2082

  Shen, Z ^a   Dessouky, M ^a   Ordonez, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency response; EMQ; non convex unconstrained optimization problem; perishable inventory management; pharmaceutical inventory management; VMI

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; NATIONAL SECURITY; OPTIMIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ECONOMIC MANUFACTURING QUANTITY MODELS; EFFICIENT EXACT ALGORITHMS; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PERISHABLE INVENTORY; PERISHABLE INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; UNCONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 80755127298     PISSN: 01605682     EISSN: 14769360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/jors.2010.181     Document Type: Article

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