Replenishment Coordination in Distribution Systems with Multiple Items and Retailers

摘要：

This paper discusses a distribution system with M items (or suppliers), N identical retailers, and a warehouse responsible for the replenishment of the system under random demand. There is room for improvement in the performance of the distribution system if one considers the opportunities to consolidate inbound and outbound shipments to and from the warehouse in order to further reduce logistics related costs. Such a practice mimics idealized cross-docking or merge-in-transit employed in practice that achieves higher cost savings as the transportation costs constitute a large portion of the total system cost. We analyze the economic impact of shipping several items to a retailer in the same outbound truck (outbound shipments consolidation) in addition to replenishing all the retailers simultaneously (inbound shipment consolidation) via several coordinated replenishment policies.

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2007 International Conference on Manufacturing & Service Operations Management(2007制造与服务运作管理国际学术会议)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

在线出版日期: 2007-06-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）