The multilocation transshipment problem

作     者：Herer, YT Tzur, M Yücesan, E 

作者机构：Technion Israel Inst Technol Fac Ind Engn & Management IL-32000 Haifa Israel Tel Aviv Univ Dept Ind Engn IL-69978 Tel Aviv Israel INSEAD Technol & Operat Management Area F-77305 Fontainebleau France 

出 版 物：《IIE TRANSACTIONS》 (工业工程师协会汇刊)

年 卷 期：2006年第38卷第3期

页      面：185-200页

核心收录：

学科分类：12[管理学] 120202[管理学-企业管理（含：财务管理、市场营销、人力资源管理）] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 02[经济学] 1202[管理学-工商管理] 1201[管理学-管理科学与工程(可授管理学、工学学位)] 

基　　金：AFIRST Association Franco-Israélienne pour la Recherche Scientifique et Tech-nologique Israeli Ministry of Science 

主　　题：RETAIL trade STORES Retail COST control SUPPLY & demand INDUSTRIAL procurement INVENTORY control PHYSICAL distribution of goods BUSINESS logistics DYNAMIC programming NONLINEAR programming PROGRAMMING (Mathematics) PRODUCTION scheduling 

摘      要：We consider a supply chain, which consists of several retailers and one supplier. The retailers, who possibly differ in their cost and demand parameters, may be coordinated through replenishment strategies and transshipments, that is, movement of a product among the locations at the same echelon level. We prove that in order to minimize the expected long-run average cost for this system, an optimal replenishment policy is for each retailer to follow an order-up-to S policy. Furthermore, we demonstrate how the values of the order-up-to quantities can be calculated using a sample-path-based optimization procedure. Given an order-up-to S policy, we show how to determine an optimal transshipment policy, using a linear programming/network flow framework. Such a combined numerical approach allows us to study complex and large systems.