Cheaper by the pallet? Multi-item procurement with standard batch sizes

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 405-418

  Rong, Ying ^a   Shen, Zuo Jun Max ^b   Yano, Candace Arai ^b,c  

^a Shanghai Jiao Tong University   (China)

^b DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Joint replenishment; Material handling; Multi item replenishment; Standard batch sizes; Transportation costs

Indexed keywords

BATCH SIZES; INVENTORY HOLDING; INVENTORY MANAGERS; JOINT REPLENISHMENT; MATERIAL HANDLING; MATERIAL HANDLING COSTS; MULTI-ITEM; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; ORDER QUANTITY; ORDERING STRATEGY; PER UNIT; PROCUREMENT PLANS; PRODUCT COST; RETAIL CHAINS; SINGLE PRODUCT; SOLUTION STRATEGY; TRANSPORT CAPACITY; TRANSPORTATION CAPACITY; TRANSPORTATION COST; TRANSPORTATION COSTS;

COST ACCOUNTING; COSTS; MANAGERS; PALLETS; STANDARDS; TRANSPORTATION;

MATERIALS HANDLING;

EID: 84859314557     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0740817X.2011.609527     Document Type: Article

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