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A Note on Bounds for Direct Shipping Cost

Randolph W. Hall

Management Science · 1992 · Volume 38 · Issue 8

DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.38.8.1212

Abstract

The bounds on direct shipping cost developed by Gallego and Simchi-Levi are used in this note to demonstrate that it is difficult to rule out multiple stop inventory-routing strategies, even when the optimal shipment size for direct shipping is a full vehicle.

Keywords

inventory, vehicle routing, worst-case analysis

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