| Article ID: | iaor19911992 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 10 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 1 |
| End Page Number: | 7 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1991 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Ord J. Keith, Hayya Jack C., Pan Andrew C., Ramasesh Ranga V. |
In a multiple-sourcing environment, the order quantity may be split concurrently among vendors. This paper presents a technique for the estimation of parameters of the lead time distributions in such systems based on other statistics. Reductions in lead times due to multiple sourcing are also studied for the two-vendor case.