An integrated inventory problem with transportation in a divergent supply chain under service level constraint

作者：Jha J K^*; Shanker Kripa

来源：Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 2014, 33(4): 462-475.

DOI：10.1016/j.jmsy.2014.04.002

• Integrated inventory model
• Multi-buyer
• Controllable lead time
• Service level constraint

This study investigates an integrated inventory problem with transportation in a single-vendor and multi-buyer divergent supply chain. The vendor manufactures a product and delivers the product to the buyers located in different locations by a fleet of vehicles of identical capacity. The external demands per unit time on the buyers are independent and normally distributed. The lead time components of the buyers, exeluding transportation time, can be reduced at an added crash cost. A model has been formulated to minimize the total expected cost of the system associated with the production, inventory, transportation and lead time reduction to find the optimal production, inventory and routing decisions while satisfying the service level constraint of the buyers. We propose a coordinated two-phase iterative approach to solve the model, which has been illustrated through a numerical example.

• 出版日期2014-10