Modeling and Simulation of a Multi-Echelon Inventory System for a Manufacture Firm

摘要：

A typical manufacture firm can be seen as a multi-echelon inventory system. This paper focuses on a multi-echelon inventory system which consists of firm warehouse and multiple distribution spots. And a model has been set forward in order to illuminate the inventory control strategies in a manufacture firm, distribution center and the retail warehouses according to certain fulfillment rate of customer requirement and production constraints of the firm resource and capacity, which aims to minimize the total inventory cost to identify the safe stock, ordering points and ordering quantities. And then simulation software Witness has been used to explain how to optimize multi-echelon inventory of a manufacture industry based on a simplified example.

关键词： Manufacturing firms Multi-echelon inventory Simulation Stock control

作者: Meilian Liu Feng zhang

作者单位: College of Management Guilin University of Electronics and Technology, Guilin, China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2007 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Lofistics

会议地点: 山东济南

会议语种:英文

在线出版日期: 2007-08-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）