Application Research of Improved SB Method in Multi-echelon Inventory System

作者：Wan Jie; Shan Rui xue^*; Meng Rui ceng

来源：IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 2015-12-06 To 2015-12-09.

DOI：10.2991/978-94-6239-180-2_63

• Factor screening
• Multi-echelon inventory system
• Sequential bifurcation
• Simulation

This research proposes a solution framework based on discrete-event simulation, sequential bifurcation (SB) to address a multi-response screening problem inherent in a multi-echelon inventory system. The objective is to eliminate unimportant factors so that the remaining important factors can be more thoroughly studied in later experiments. In the proposed framework, we first extended the SB to the multiple responses, called multi-response SB (MSB) which is more effective and efficient. To obtain enough replications for correctly classifying a group effect as being important or unimportant, we present a method for determining the final number of replicates by the initial number of replicates. We then apply the MSB to identify the important factors that influence multi-echelon inventory system responses. The performance of the new method is proven and compared with the original SB procedure, the results are very promising.

• 出版日期2016
• 单位河北工业大学