The sales force sizing problem with multi-period workload assignments, and service time windows

DOI10.1007/S10100-017-0501-ZMaRDI QIDQ1725834zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xianqiang Yang

Publication date 15 February 2019

Published in CEJOR. Central European Journal of Operations Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10100-017-0501-z

zbMATH Keywords

personnel schedulingmulti-period vehicle routing problemsales force optimizationworkload assignment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Operations research and management science (90Bxx)

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