The effect of backlog queue and load-building processing in a multi-echelon inventory network

Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory

Volumn 43, Issue , 2014, Pages 54-66

  Xiang, Yisha ^a   Rossetti, Manuel D ^b  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b 3202 Bell Engineering Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Inventory control; Multi echelon; Simulation; Supply chain management; Supply chain performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894439737     PISSN: 1569190X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2014.01.006     Document Type: Article

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