A two-echelon inventory model for single vender and multi-buyer system through common replenishment epochs

• Autores: Wen-Jen Chang, Chih-Hung Tsai
• Localización: International journal of the computer, the internet and management, ISSN 0858-7027, Vol. 10, Nº. 3, 2002, págs. 48-58
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • To cope with the competitiveness of global market, the enterprise’s decision has now been based on seeking a global optimum of supply chain. The inventory policy of enterprise can be made by the all members of supply chain in order to reach the win-win for both venders and buyers. This study considers the problem of one-vender supplying a product to multi-buyer (customers). The objective is to minimize the vender’s total costs of order processing and transportation subject to the maximum costs which buyers are prepared to incur. In the proposed model, the vender offers a price discount to entice the buyers to accept the policy of common replenishment epochs (CRE). Finally, this study evaluates the benefit of the proposed coordinated strategy with a numerical study.