Optimizing a multi-vendor multi-retailer vendor managed inventory problem: Two tuned meta-heuristic algorithms

Knowledge-Based Systems

Volumn 50, Issue , 2013, Pages 159-170

  Sadeghi, Javad ^a   Mousavi, Seyed Mohsen ^a   Niaki, Seyed Taghi Akhavan ^b   Sadeghi, Saeid ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Meta heuristic; Multi retailer; Multi vendor; Taguchi method; Vendor managed inventory model

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY OPERATORS; INTEGER-NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; META HEURISTIC ALGORITHM; METAHEURISTIC; MULTI-RETAILER; MULTI-VENDOR; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENTS (SCM); VENDOR MANAGED INVENTORY;

GENETIC ALGORITHMS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION (PSO); SALES; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; TAGUCHI METHODS; WAREHOUSES;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84881311863     PISSN: 09507051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.knosys.2013.06.006     Document Type: Article

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