On the Effectiveness of Direct Shipping Strategy for the One-Warehouse Multi-Retailer R-Systems

DOI10.1287/mnsc.36.2.240zbMath0695.90030MaRDI QIDQ3471809

Guillermo Gallego, David Simchi-Levi

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.36.2.240

zbMATH Keywords

vehicle routing; inventory control; worst-case analysis; Economic Lot Size; inventory- routing strategies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

90B05: Inventory, storage, reservoirs

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