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Note—Deriving the Optimal Boundaries for Class-Based Automatic Storage/Retrieval Systems

Meir J. Rosenblatt
Meir J. Rosenblatt
Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
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Amit Eynan
Amit Eynan
John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130
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Meir J. Rosenblatt

Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Management, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel

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Amit Eynan

John M. Olin School of Business, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130

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Published Online:1 Dec 1989https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.35.12.1519

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December 1989

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