Safety stock reduction by order splitting

Safety stock reduction by order splitting

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Article ID: iaor1991436
Country: United States
Volume: 37
Issue: 5
Start Page Number: 725
End Page Number: 743
Publication Date: Oct 1990
Journal: Naval Research Logistics
Authors: ,
Abstract:

In this article the authors consider an item for which a continuous review, reorder point, order quantity inventory control system is used. The amount of safety stock required depends upon, among other factors, the average value and variability of the length of the replenishment lead time. One way to reduce these quantities is to split orders among two or more vendors. In this article the random lead times are assumed to have Weibull distributions. This permits the development of analytic expressions for the reduction in the expected value and variability of total demand until the critical first (earliest) delivery received from a vendor. An expression is also obtained for the reorder point that provides a given probability of no stockout prior to the first delivery. Lower bounds are given on the order quantity so as to ensure that the probability of a stockout before any one of the later (second, third, etc.) deliveries is sufficiently small to be considered negligible. The analytic and tabular results can be used to estimate the benefits (reduced carrying costs and/or increased service level) of order splitting.

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