A new approximate evaluation method for two-echelon inventory systems with emergency shipments

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 147-169

  Özkan, Erhun ^a   van Houtum, Geert Jan ^b   Serin, Yasemin ^c  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Approximate evaluation; Emergency shipments; Spare parts; Two echelon system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878717667     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-013-1401-9     Document Type: Article

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