Title :
Queueing system with inventory for two-echelon supply chain
Author :
Saffari, Mohammad ; Haji, Rasoul
Author_Institution :
Ind. Eng. Dept., Sharif Univ. of Technol., Tehran, Iran
Abstract :
In this paper a two-echelon supply chain consisting of a supplier and a retailer is considered, Customers refer to retailer according to a Poisson process and retailer uses one for one inventory policy. Supplier follows continuous review (r, Q) policy. Satisfying each demand which arrives to the supplier needs an on hand-inventory and a process/service. Process/service and replenishment lead times are random variables which are exponentially distributed. During a period that supplier has non zero on-hand inventory, arriving demands from retailer join the queue. But when supplier has no on-hand inventory retailer buys product from the other source with zero lead time and additional cost. In this paper we calculate long-term performance measures of the systems that are used to minimize the supply chain costs.
Keywords :
inventory management; queueing theory; stochastic processes; supply chain management; Poisson process; hand-inventory; inventory policy; queueing system; supply chain costs minimization; two-echelon supply chain; Analytical models; Costs; Inventory control; Inventory management; Optimal control; Optimization methods; Production systems; Random variables; Supply chain management; Supply chains; inventory; queueing system; stationary distribution; tow-echelon supply chain;
Conference_Titel :
Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2009. CIE 2009. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Troyes
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4135-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4136-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICCIE.2009.5223801