New opportunities in operations research to improve pork supply chain efficiency

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 219, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 5-23

  Rodríguez, Sara V ^a,b   Plà, Lluis M ^b   Faulin, Javier ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^c PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Pork sector; Pork supply chain management; Sow herd models; Supply chain management models

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904515038     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-013-1465-6     Document Type: Article

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