Offsetting inventory cycles of items sharing storage

Offsetting inventory cycles of items sharing storage

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Article ID: iaor20042963
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 150
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 304
End Page Number: 319
Publication Date: Oct 2003
Journal: European Journal of Operational Research
Authors: , ,
Abstract:

The ability to determine the optimal frequencies and offsets for independent and unrestricted ordering cycles for multiple items can be very valuable for managing storage capacity constrained facilities in a supply chain. The complexity of this problem has resulted in researchers focusing on more tractable surrogate problems that are special cases of the base problem. This research has focused on developing fundamental properties of the original problem. We exploit the problem structure and present a heuristic for offsetting independent and unrestricted ordering cycles for items to minimize their joint storage requirements. Heuristics of this type may prove useful in solving the more general problem of selecting order quantities to minimize combined holding, ordering, and storage costs.

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