Article: Safety stock management in a two-stage supply chain with controllable lead time and batch shipments: a technical note Journal: International Journal of Integrated Supply Management (IJISM) 2024 Vol.17 No.1 pp.22 - 31 Abstract: The joint economic lot size (JELS) model with stochastic demand and controllable lead time has received quite some attention in the literature. If a lot is shipped in batches from the vendor to the buyer, subsequent shipments may be subject to different lead times. Establishing a common safety stock for all batch shipments may lead to an inflated stockout risk for early batch shipments and an unnecessarily high inventory level for late batch shipments. To alleviate this shortcoming, a few authors proposed JELS models that adjust the safety stock level over the course of the inventory cycle. Existing works, however, do not always correctly establish the relationship between the vendor's and the buyer's inventory. This technical note adjusts the relationship between the buyer's and the vendor's inventory and numerically quantifies the error's impact on the expected average inventory as well as on the system's expected total cost. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Safety stock management in a two-stage supply chain with controllable lead time and batch shipments: a technical note

Authors: Davide Castellano; Christoph H. Glock; Bibhas Chandra Giri; Massimo Bertolini

Addresses: 'Enzo Ferrari' Department of Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via P. Vivarelli 10, 41125 Modena, Italy ' Department of Law and Economics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Hochschulstraße 1, Darmstadt, 64289, Germany ' Department of Mathematics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 700032, India ' 'Enzo Ferrari' Department of Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via P. Vivarelli 10, 41125 Modena, Italy

Abstract: The joint economic lot size (JELS) model with stochastic demand and controllable lead time has received quite some attention in the literature. If a lot is shipped in batches from the vendor to the buyer, subsequent shipments may be subject to different lead times. Establishing a common safety stock for all batch shipments may lead to an inflated stockout risk for early batch shipments and an unnecessarily high inventory level for late batch shipments. To alleviate this shortcoming, a few authors proposed JELS models that adjust the safety stock level over the course of the inventory cycle. Existing works, however, do not always correctly establish the relationship between the vendor's and the buyer's inventory. This technical note adjusts the relationship between the buyer's and the vendor's inventory and numerically quantifies the error's impact on the expected average inventory as well as on the system's expected total cost.

Keywords: integrated inventory model; joint economic lot size; JELS; variable lead time; safety stock; backorder price discount; stochastic demand.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISM.2024.135416

International Journal of Integrated Supply Management, 2024 Vol.17 No.1, pp.22 - 31

Received: 03 Jan 2023
Accepted: 24 Jun 2023
Published online: 11 Dec 2023 *

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