A transfer/clearing inventory model under sporadic review

Oded Berman, Dmitry Krass, David Perry

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Abstract

We consider two locations in tandem of an inventory model, so-called the buffer and the store. The content levels in both locations are controlled simultaneously by transferring inventory from the buffer location to the store location. Under a certain cost function that takes into account the trade-off between the transferal set-up costs, the proportional holding and unsatisfied demand costs, the control policy of "when" and "how much" to transfer is restricted to the case of clearings under conditions of sporadic review. The objective is to find the optimal production rate or the optimal rate of the clearing process in heavy traffic in both locations. The purpose of this study is two-fold: we are interested both in the performance analysis of the relevant cost functionals and also in optimization and sensitivity analysis.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)329-344
Number of pages16
JournalMathematical Methods of Operations Research
Volume57
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2003

Keywords

  • Clearing
  • Continuous
  • Heavy traffic
  • Holding costs
  • Martingale
  • Periodic and sporadic reviews: transferal set-up costs

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • General Mathematics
  • Management Science and Operations Research

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