An index heuristic for transshipment decisions in multi-location inventory systems based on a pairwise decomposition
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An index heuristic for transshipment decisions in multi-location inventory systems based on a pairwise decomposition
In multi-location inventory systems, transshipments are often used to improve customer service and reduce cost. Determining optimal transshipment policies for such systems involves a complex optimisation problem that is only tractable for systems with few locations. Consequently simple heuristic transshipment policies are often applied in practice. This paper develops an approximate solution me...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Operational Research
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0377-2217
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2007.09.019