MIP model for inventory routing in industrial gases supply chain

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 53, Issue 44, 2014, Pages 17214-17225

  Dong, Yachao ^a   Pinto, Jose M ^b   Sundaramoorthy, Arul ^b   Maravelias, Christos T ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b PRAXAIR INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GASES; SUPPLY CHAINS;

CONSUMPTION RATES; DISCRETE TIME; HETEROGENEOUS VEHICLES; INVENTORY ROUTING; INVENTORY ROUTING PROBLEMS; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING MODEL; TIME CONSTRAINTS; VALID INEQUALITY;

INTEGER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84910045133     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie500460c     Document Type: Article

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