Towards Developing Order Distribution System by Simulation Approach
Increasing competitive pressures, market globalization and shortened product life cycles are forcing firms to develop supply chains that can quickly respond to customer needs. The instability of demand and supply from customers and suppliers has always led the structure of a supply chain to become sophisticated. In view of the fact how to manage the foregoing instability as well as control well makes a great impact on the order distribution system, whereas plays an important role in decreasing product purchasing costs and enhancing product service level. A simulation-based system structure is therefore proposed for regular orders, and factors of consideration include order fill rates, production capacity, current order quantities and simultaneously. Multiple objectives concerned in this paper include total turnover, purchasing cost, delivery cost of procrastinated order, transportation cost, and order waiting cost. Numerical examples are employed to show the effects that the proposed model on aspects of total revenues and purchasing costs are better than the model concerned order fill rate only.
demand instability order fill rate order distribution simulation
Wen-Pai Wang Chun-Chih Chiu
Department of Industrial Engineering & Management National Chin-Yi University of Technology Taiping, Taichung, Taiwan
国际会议
上海
英文
224-228
2011-03-11（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）