Inventory routing problem

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 2378, 2013, Pages 32-42

  Yang, Xianfeng ^a   Feng, Lei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE-STUDIES; INVENTORY ROUTING PROBLEMS; LOCAL OPTIMAL; OPTIMAL CONDITIONS; RUN OUTS; SCHEDULING AND ROUTING; SOLUTION ALGORITHMS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84893035184     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/2378-04     Document Type: Article

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