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Performance Measurement for Inventory Routing
2007
Transportation Science
An important reason for companies to introduce vendor managed inventory programs is to eliminate distribution inefficiencies occurring due to the timing of customers' orders. By managing their customers' inventories suppliers may be able to reduce demand variability and therefore distribution costs. We develop technology to measure the effectiveness of distribution strategies. Popular practical performance measures, such as volume delivered per mile, are effective in measuring relative
doi:10.1287/trsc.1060.0175
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