The value of Vendor Managed Inventory in an autocorrelated demand environment

Belalia, Zainab; Ghaiti, Fouzia

doi:10.1016/j.ifacol.2016.07.787

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“…Unlike decentralized distribution mode, supply hub changes the relationship between manufacturers and suppliers from one-to-many to one-to-one, simplifying the operation processes [34]. Since the utilization of supply hub has already achieved good results in enterprise management practices [35][36][37], we validate the effectiveness of the new approach by comparing and analyzing the flexibility performance of decentralized distribution mode as Mode 1 and supply hub operation mode as Mode 2. In order to facilitate the study, we consider the simple supply chain structure of 1 manufacturer and 2 suppliers.…”

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A Flexible Logistics Distribution Hub Model considering Cost Weighted Time

Ran

Zhang

Liu

2017

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

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The delivery time of order has become an important fact for customers to evaluate logistics services. Due to the diverse and large quantities of orders in the background of electronic commerce, how to improve the flexibility of distribution hub and reduce the waiting time of customers becomes one of the most challenging questions for logistics companies. With this in mind, this paper proposes a new method of flexibility assessment in distribution hub by introducing cost weighted time (CWT). The advantages of supply hub operation mode in delivery flexibility are verified by the approach: the mode has pooling effects and uniform distribution characteristics; these traits can reduce overlapping delivery time to improve the flexibility in the case of two suppliers. Numerical examples show that the supply hub operation mode is more flexible than decentralized distribution operation mode in multidelivery cycles.

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