Meta-heuristics for placing strategic safety stock in multi-echelon inventory with differentiated service times

Annals of Operations Research

Volumn 242, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 489-504

  Grahl, Jörn ^a   Minner, Stefan ^b   Dittmar, Daniel ^c  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Differentiated service times; Evolutionary algorithms; Guaranteed service approach; Safety stock allocation; Simulated annealing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904520385     PISSN: 02545330     EISSN: 15729338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10479-014-1635-1     Document Type: Article

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