Thirty years of inventory routing

Transportation Science

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-19

  Coelho, Leandro C ^a   Cordeau, Jean François ^b   Laporte, Gilbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b HEC MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

History; Inventory routing; Literature review; Survey

Indexed keywords

HISTORY; SCHEDULING; SURVEYING; VEHICLE ROUTING;

DELIVERY SCHEDULING; EXACT ALGORITHMS; INTEGRATED LOGISTICS; INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; INVENTORY ROUTING; INVENTORY ROUTING PROBLEMS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; SIDE CONSTRAINTS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 84893757981     PISSN: 00411655     EISSN: 15265447     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.2013.0472     Document Type: Article

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