Service parts inventory control with lateral transshipment and pipeline stockflexibility

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 278-289

  Yang, Guangyuan ^a,b   Dekker, Rommert ^a   Gabor, Adriana F ^a   Axsäter, Sven ^c  

^a Erasmus University Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

^b TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Customer oriented service measure; Lateral transshipment flexibility; Maritime applications; Pipeline stock flexibility; Response time

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION METHODS; CUSTOMER-ORIENTED SERVICES; DREDGING INDUSTRY; ERP SYSTEM; FREIGHT CARRIER; HIGH DEMAND; INVENTORY DECISIONS; LATERAL TRANS SHIPMENTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; SERVICE PARTS; TRACK AND TRACE;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; EXPERIMENTS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

PIPELINES;

EID: 84874512346     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2012.11.009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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