Fleet optimization for cyclic inventory routing problems

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 160, Issue , 2015, Pages 172-181

  Raa, Birger ^a,b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b ANTWERP MARITIME ACADEMY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cyclic planning; Distribution; Fleet sizing; Inventory routing

Indexed keywords

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; HEURISTIC METHODS; OPTIMIZATION;

CONSTRUCTION PHASE; CYCLIC INVENTORY; DESIGN PROBLEMS; DISTRIBUTION; FLEET SIZING; HEURISTIC SOLUTIONS; INVENTORY ROUTING; SOLUTION APPROACH;

FLEET OPERATIONS;

EID: 84920518695     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2014.10.006     Document Type: Article

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