Route and fleet design for cyclic inventory routing

European Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 256, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 404-411

  Raa, Birger ^a,b   Dullaert, Wout ^c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b ANTWERP MARITIME ACADEMY   (Belgium)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cyclic planning; Delivery scheduling; Distribution logistics; Inventory routing; Periodic routing

Indexed keywords

SALES; VEHICLES;

COMPUTATIONAL EXPERIMENT; DELIVERY SCHEDULING; DETERMINISTIC DEMAND; DISTRIBUTION COSTS; DISTRIBUTION LOGISTICS; INVENTORY ROUTING; NUMBER OF VEHICLES; PERIODIC ROUTING;

COSTS;

EID: 84979716016     PISSN: 03772217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2016.06.009     Document Type: Article

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