scholarly journals Supply Chain Planning Problem Considering Customer Inventory Holding Cost Based on an Improved Tabu Search Algorithm

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Li ◽  
Wenyin Yang

AbstractThis paper studies Inventory location routing problem in supply chain distribution network planning under vendor inventory management while considering customer inventory holding cost. In order to minimize the total cost of supply chain, an optimization model is established and an improved tabu search algorithm is used to solve the problem. From the analysis, it shows that the total cost decreases as the total vehicles capacity increases, and the maximum utilization of alternative vehicles and the minimum cost of the system don’t occur at the same time in some cases.

Author(s):  
Jing Hou ◽  
Amy Z. Zeng ◽  
Lindu Zhao

In this chapter we focus on examining the coordination mechanisms for a two-stage supply chain comprising one supplier and one retailer. We consider such a channel relationship that the transaction quantity between the two members is sensitive to the supplier’s inventory level and that the supplier’s unit inventory holding cost has a linear stepwise structure. We devise a coordinated revenue-sharing contract with bargaining so that each party’s respective profit is better than that resulted from the simple sequential optimization mechanism. The key contract parameters, namely the supplier’s inventory level and the retailer’s revenue-sharing fraction, are obtained and analyzed. Numerical illustrations of the contracts are given and shed lights on how the supply chain should coordinate in order to gain better performance.


Author(s):  
Alejandra Gomez-Padilla

In this document it is analyzed the importance of contracts for coordination between two companies in a supply chain. In the studied situation, one company, or supplier, supplies one product to the other company, who is a retailer. The companies are going to coordinate by two types of decisions: economic (concerning prices fixed on a contract), and physical exchange (concerning the inventory to be held). Two types of contracts will be presented: one contract with a simple pricing scheme and two contracts with inventory holding cost shared among the companies of the supply chain. The objective is to show that contracts with inventory holding cost share allow the two companies to efficiently coordinate the chain they form.


Author(s):  
YUFU NING ◽  
LIMEI YAN ◽  
HUANBIN SHA

A model is constructed for a type of multi-period inventory problem with deteriorating items, in which demands are assumed to be uncertain variables. The objective is to minimize the expected total cost including the ordering cost, inventory holding cost and deteriorating cost under constraints that demands should be satisfied with some service level in each period. To solve the model, two methods are proposed in different cases. When uncertain variables are linear, a crisp equivalent form of the model is provided. For the general cases, a hybrid algorithm integrating the 99-method and genetic algorithm is designed. Two examples are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the model and solving methods.


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