scholarly journals Perishable Inventory System with Postponed Demands and Negative Customers

2007 ◽  
Vol 2007 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Manuel ◽  
B. Sivakumar ◽  
G. Arivarignan

This article considers a continuous review perishable (s,S) inventory system in which the demands arrive according to a Markovian arrival process (MAP). The lifetime of items in the stock and the lead time of reorder are assumed to be independently distributed as exponential. Demands that occur during the stock-out periods either enter a pool which has capacity N(<∞) or are lost. Any demand that takes place when the pool is full and the inventory level is zero is assumed to be lost. The demands in the pool are selected one by one, if the replenished stock is above s, with time interval between any two successive selections distributed as exponential with parameter depending on the number of customers in the pool. The waiting demands in the pool independently may renege the system after an exponentially distributed amount of time. In addition to the regular demands, a second flow of negative demands following MAP is also considered which will remove one of the demands waiting in the pool. The joint probability distribution of the number of customers in the pool and the inventory level is obtained in the steady state case. The measures of system performance in the steady state are calculated and the total expected cost per unit time is also considered. The results are illustrated numerically.

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 6500-6515
Author(s):  
R Jayaraman

In this article, we consider a continuous review perishable inventory system with a finite number of homogeneous sources generating demands. The demand time points form quasi random process and demand is for single item. The maximum storage capacity is assumed to be The life time of each item is assumed to have exponential distribution. The order policy is policy, that is, whenever the inventory level drops to a prefixed level an order for items is placed. The ordered items are received after a random time which is distributed as exponential. We assume that the demands that occur during the stock out periods either enter a pool or leave the system which is according to a Bernoulli trial. The demands in the pool are selected one by one, while the stock is above the level with interval time between any two successive selections is distributed as exponential. The joint probability distribution of the number of customers in the pool and the inventory level is obtained in the steady state case. Various system performance measures are derived to compute the total expected cost per unit time in the steady state. The optimal cost function and the optimal are studied numerically.


2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Jayaraman ◽  
B. Sivakumar ◽  
G. Arivarignan

A mathematical modelling of a continuous review stochastic inventory system with a single server is carried out in this work. We assume that demand time points form a Poisson process. The life time of each item is assumed to have exponential distribution. We assume(s,S)ordering policy to replenish stock with random lead time. The server goes for a vacation of an exponentially distributed duration at the time of stock depletion and may take subsequent vacation depending on the stock position. The customer who arrives during the stock-out period or during the server vacation is offered a choice of joining a pool which is of finite capacity or leaving the system. The demands in the pool are selected one by one by the server only when the inventory level is aboves, with interval time between any two successive selections distributed as exponential with parameter depending on the number of customers in the pool. The joint probability distribution of the inventory level and the number of customers in the pool is obtained in the steady-state case. Various system performance measures in the steady state are derived, and the long-run total expected cost rate is calculated.


Author(s):  
K. Jeganathan ◽  
N. Anbazhagan ◽  
B. Vigneshwaran

This article presents a perishable inventory system under continuous review at a service facility in which a waiting area for customers is of finite size . The authors assume that the replenishment of inventory is instantaneous. The items of inventory have exponential life times. It is assumed that demand for the commodity is of unit size. The service starts only when the customer level reaches a prefixed level , starting from the epoch at which no customer is left behind in the system. The arrivals of customers to the service station form a Poisson process. The server goes for a vacation of an exponentially distributed duration whenever the waiting area is zero. If the server finds the customer level is less than when he returns to the system, he immediately takes another vacation. The individual customer is issued a demanded item after a random service time, which is distributed as negative exponential. The service process is subject to interruptions, which occurs according to a Poisson process. The interrupted server is repaired at an exponential rate. Also the waiting customer independently reneges the system after an exponentially distributed amount of time. The joint probability distribution of the number customers in the system and the inventory levels is obtained in steady state case. Some measures of system performance in the steady state are derived and the total expected cost is also considered. The results are illustrated with numerical examples.


2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Jeganathan ◽  
J. Sumathi ◽  
G. Mahalakshmi

This article presents a perishable stochastic inventory system under continuous review at a service facility consisting of two parallel queues with jockeying. Each server has its own queue, and jockeying among the queues is permitted. The capacity of each queue is of finite size L. The inventory is replenished according to an (s; S) inventory policy and the replenishing times are assumed to be exponentially distributed. The individual customer is issued a demanded item after a random service time, which is distributed as negative exponential. The life time of each item is assumed to be exponential. Customers arrive according to a Poisson process and on arrival; they join the shortest feasible queue. Moreover, if the inventory level is more than one and one queue is empty while in the other queue, more than one customer are waiting, then the customer who has to be received after the customer being served in that queue is transferred to the empty queue. This will prevent one server from being idle while the customers are waiting in the other queue. The waiting customer independently reneges the system after an exponentially distributed amount of time. The joint probability distribution of the inventory level, the number of customers in both queues, and the status of the server are obtained in the steady state. Some important system performance measures in the steady state are derived, so as the long-run total expected cost rate.


Author(s):  
Krishnan K.

In this Chapter, the author considers a continuous review inventory system (both perishable and non-perishable) with Markovian demand. The operating policies are (s, S) and (0,M) policy, that is the maximum inventory level at lower echelon is Sand whenever the inventory drops to s, an order for Q(= S - s) units is placed at the same time in the higher echelon, the maximum inventory level is fixed as M(= nQ: n = 1, 2, ….) and has an instantaneous replenishment facility from an abundant supply source. The demands that occur directly to the distribution centre are called direct demands. The arrival process for the direct demand follows Poisson process. The demand process to the retailer node is independent to the direct demand process and follows Poisson process. The demands that occur during stock out period are enter into the orbit of finite size. The joint probability distribution of the inventory level at lower echelon, higher echelon and the number of customer in the orbit is obtained in the steady state case.


2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 83-104
Author(s):  
Kathirvel Jeganathan

AbstractWe consider a perishable inventory system with bonus service for certain customers. The maximum inventory level is S. The ordering policy is (0, S) policy and the lead time is zero. The life time of each items is assumed to be exponential. Arrivals of customers follow a Poisson process with parameter λ. Arriving customers form a single waiting line based on the order of their arrivals. The capacity of the waiting line is restricted to M including the one being served. The first N ≥ 1 customers who arrive after the system becomes empty must wait for service to begin. We have assumed that these N customers received an additional service, called bonus service, in addition to the essential service rendered to all customers. The service times are exponentially distributed. An arriving customer who finds the server busy or waiting area size ≥ N, proceeds to the waiting area with probability p and is lost forever with probability (1 − p). The Laplace–Stieltjes transform of the waiting time of the tagged customer is derived. The joint probability distribution of the number of customers in the waiting area and the inventory level is obtained for the steady state case. Some important system performance measures and the long-run total expected cost rate are derived in the steady state.


Author(s):  
D. Gomathi

In this chapter we consider a perishable inventory system under continuous review at a bi-level service system with finite waiting hall of size N. The maximum storage capacity of the inventory is S units. We assumed that a demand for the commodity is of unit size. The arrival time points of customers form a Poisson process. The individual customer is issued a demanded item after a random service time, which is distributed as negative exponential. The effect of the two modes of operations on the system performance measures is also discussed. It is also assumed that lead time for the reorders is distributed as exponential and is independent of the service time distribution. The items are perishable in nature and the life time of each item is assumed to be exponentially distributed. The demands that occur during stock out periods are lost. The joint probability distribution of the number of customers is obtained in the steady-state case. Various system performance measures in the steady state are derived. The results are illustrated numerically.


Author(s):  
Jeganathan Kathirvel

We consider a perishable inventory system under continuous review at a service facility in which a waiting area for customers is of finite size. We assume that the replenishment of inventory is instantaneous. The items of inventory have exponential life times. The service starts only when the customer level reaches a prefixed level, starting from the epoch at which no customer is left behind in the system. The arrivals of customers to the service station form a Poisson process. The server goes for a vacation of an exponentially distributed duration whenever the waiting area is zero. The service process is subject to interruptions, which occurs according to a Poisson process. The interrupted server is repaired at an exponential rate. Also the waiting customer independently reneges the system after an exponentially distributed amount of time. The joint probability distribution of the number of customers in the system and the inventory levels is obtained in steady state case. The results are illustrated with numerical examples.


2014 ◽  
Vol 31 (04) ◽  
pp. 1450029 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROSTISLAV V. RAZUMCHIK

Consideration is given to the queueing system with incoming Poisson flows of regular and negative customers. Regular customers await service in buffer of finite size r. Each negative customer upon arrival pushes a regular customer out of the queue in buffer (if it is not empty) and moves it to another queue of finite capacity r (bunker). Customers from both queues are served according to exponential distribution with parameter μ, first-come, first-served discipline, but customers in bunker are served with relative priority. Using method based on Chebyshev and Gegenbauer polynomials the algorithm for computation of stationary blocking probabilities and joint probability distribution of the number of customers in buffer and bunker is obtained. Numerical example is provided.


2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Krishnamoorthy ◽  
R. Manikandan ◽  
Dhanya Shajin

We attempt to derive the steady-state distribution of theM/M/cqueueing-inventory system with positive service time. First we analyze the case ofc=2servers which are assumed to be homogeneous and that the service time follows exponential distribution. The inventory replenishment follows the(s,Q)policy. We obtain a product form solution of the steady-state distribution under the assumption that customers do not join the system when the inventory level is zero. An average system cost function is constructed and the optimal pair(s,Q)and the corresponding expected minimum cost are computed. As in the case ofM/M/cretrial queue withc≥3, we conjecture thatM/M/cforc≥3, queueing-inventory problems, do not have analytical solution. So we proceed to analyze such cases using algorithmic approach. We derive an explicit expression for the stability condition of the system. Conditional distribution of the inventory level, conditioned on the number of customers in the system, and conditional distribution of the number of customers, conditioned on the inventory level, are derived. The distribution of two consecutivestostransitions of the inventory level (i.e., the first return time tos) is computed. We also obtain several system performance measures.


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