Chan, Lap Mui Ann; Muriel, Ana; Shen, Zuo-Jun Max; … - In: Management Science 48 (2002) 11, pp. 1446-1460
distribution of products across their supply chain. Our goal is to design simple inventory policies and transportation strategies … discounts in the transportation cost structures. For this purpose, we study the cost effectiveness of restricting the inventory … inventory and transportation cost is no more than 4/3 (5.6/4.6 if transportation costs are stationary) times the optimal cost …
