Multi-products location–routing problem integrated with inventory under stochastic demand

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 454-476

  Sajjadi, Seyed Reza ^a   Cheraghi, S Hossein ^b  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

integrated supply chain; inventory; location routing problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922127865     PISSN: 17485037     EISSN: 17485045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2011.03967     Document Type: Article

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