Optimal allocation policy for a multi-location inventory system with a quick response warehouse

Operations Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 305-310

  Van Wijk, A C C ^a   Adan, I J B F ^b   Van Houtum, G J ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Inventory; Lateral transshipment; Optimal policy structure; Quick response warehouse

Indexed keywords

INVENTORY; INVENTORY PROBLEM; LATERAL TRANS SHIPMENTS; MULTI-LOCATION INVENTORY SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMAL ALLOCATION; OPTIMAL POLICIES; QUICK RESPONSE;

INVENTORY CONTROL; WAREHOUSES;

STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84875929993     PISSN: 01676377     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.orl.2013.03.002     Document Type: Article

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