標題: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH FOR THE OPERATIONS OF DISTRIBUTION AND LATERAL TRANSSHIPMENT FOR SEASONAL PRODUCTS - A CASE STUDY IN HOUSEHOLD PRODUCT INDUSTRY
作者: Yao, Ming-Jong
Lin, James T.
Yang, Chen-Hao
運輸與物流管理系 註:原交通所+運管所
工業工程與管理學系
Department of Transportation and Logistics Management
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
關鍵字: Distribution;supply chain;lateral transshipment;seasonal products;mathematical model
公開日期: 1-May-2011
摘要: The household product industry often suffers from problems of high operational costs and/or lost sales from selling seasonal products since managers in different divisions/stages of the supply chain make their decisions independently. We are therefore motivated to propose an approach that integrates the operations in the three stages of a supply chain for the management of seasonal products. The goal of this study is to minimize the total costs incurred for the seasonal products in the whole selling period. In the first stage, we employ a newsvendor model to determine the optimal one-time-only order quantities of the seasonal products. Then, we utilize a clustering analysis in the second stage to categorize seasonal products into groups, and establish an optimal replenishment policy for the products in the same group. Finally, the third stage starts when the warehouse runs out of its inventory. We formulate a mathematical model to determine the optimal transshipment quantities among all of the retailers to minimize the expected total costs incurred for the rest of the selling period. Taking a household product company in Taiwan as our case study, we demonstrate the implementation of the proposed (integrated) approach. Based on the real-world data of 17 seasonal products, we show that our integrated approach significantly outperforms the company's current approach. Therefore, our integrated approach may serve as an effective decision support tool for the distribution and lateral transshipment of seasonal products in the household product industry.
URI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/jimo.2011.7.401
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/8929
ISSN: 1547-5816
DOI: 10.3934/jimo.2011.7.401
期刊: JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL AND MANAGEMENT OPTIMIZATION
Volume: 7
Issue: 2
起始頁: 401
結束頁: 424
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