Inventory service-level optimization within distribution network design problem |
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Authors: | Pablo A. Miranda Rodrigo A. Garrido |
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Affiliation: | aNetwork Configuration Research Group and School of Industrial Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso Av. Brasil 2241, Casilla 4059, Valparaíso, Chile;bDepartment of Transport Engineering and Logistics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Vicuña Mackenna 4860, Macul, Casilla 306, Santiago 22, Código 105, Santiago, Chile |
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Abstract: | We propose a sequential heuristic approach to optimize inventory service levels in a two-stage supply chain. The proposed approach deals with service level and inventory decisions, simultaneously with network design decisions, and incorporating unfulfilled demand costs in a previous inventory-location model. A two-step formulation is considered, where the first step optimizes service level and the second step addresses location and inventory decisions. Each algorithm iteration solves an inventory-location model for a fixed service level, and then the service level is updated in order to reach an equilibrium condition between operating system and unfulfilled demand costs. The algorithm converged in three iterations for a set of sample instances, obtaining the same outcome in comparison with a more intuitive, exact, but more time-consuming search procedure. |
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Keywords: | Service-level optimization Inventory control decisions Inventory-location models Facility location problems Distribution network design |
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