An index heuristic for transshipment decisions in multi-location inventory systems based on a pairwise decomposition

DOI10.1016/j.ejor.2007.09.019zbMath1179.90009OpenAlexW1997315197MaRDI QIDQ948651

D. Black, Kevin D. Glazebrook, Thomas W. Archibald

Publication date: 17 October 2008

Published in: European Journal of Operational Research (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/44978/1/10.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

dynamic programmingdecompositioninventorystochastic modelstransshipment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation methods and heuristics in mathematical programming (90C59) Inventory, storage, reservoirs (90B05) Dynamic programming (90C39)

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