A literature review on multi-echelon inventory management: the case of pharmaceutical supply chain

N Sbai, A Berrado - Matec web of conferences, 2018 - matec-conferences.org
Inventory management remains a key challenge in supply chain management. Many
companies recognize the benefits of a good inventory management system. An effective …

A single-stage cleaner production system with random defective rate and remanufacturing

B Sarkar, BK Dey, S Pareek, M Sarkar - Computers & Industrial Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper investigates an impact of random defective rates in an imperfect production
system with multiple products and planned backorders in a single-stage production system …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic literature review on the joint replenishment problem solutions: 2006-2015

LSL Bastos, ML Mendes, DRL Nunes, ACS Melo… - Production, 2017 - SciELO Brasil
Among all existing inventory replenishment models, this research was dedicated to the Joint
Replenishment Problem (JRP), which consists in the replenishment of multiple items …

Joint-optimization of inventory policies on a multi-product multi-echelon pharmaceutical system with batching and ordering constraints

WJ Guerrero, TG Yeung, C Guéret - European Journal of Operational …, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper presents a methodology to find near-optimal joint inventory control policies for
the real case of a one-warehouse, n-retailer distribution system of infusion solutions at a …

An integrated inventory model for multi-echelon supply chains with deteriorating items: a price-dependent demand approach

M Taghizadeh-Yazdi, Z Farrokhi… - Journal of Industrial …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This study develops an operational policy for a three-echelon supply chain. A mathematical
programming model is proposed to maximize the combined profit of the suppliers …

Distribution planning for multi-echelon networks considering multiple sourcing and lateral transshipments

M Firoozi, MZ Babai, W Klibi, Y Ducq - International Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Nowadays, due to the increasing complexity of business environment, especially demand
uncertainty, supply chain managers need to establish more-effective sourcing and …

A centralized stochastic inventory control model for perishable products considering age-dependent purchase price and lead time

E Ahmadi, DT Masel, S Hostetler, R Maihami… - Top, 2020 - Springer
In this paper, we present a stochastic multi-period multi-echelon\left (s, S\right) s, S periodic
inventory control model for perishable products in a healthcare environment. We consider …

A novel mathematical model for a multi-period, multi-product optimal ordering problem considering expiry dates in a FEFO system

Z Sazvar, SMJ Mirzapour Al-e-Hashem… - … Research Part E …, 2016 - Elsevier
One of the main challenges of retail units is to determine the order quantities of different
types of products, each with a specific expiry date, so that the system cost including shortage …

Supply chain joint inventory management and cost optimization based on ant colony algorithm and fuzzy model

W Yu, G Hou, J Li - Tehnički vjesnik, 2019 - hrcak.srce.hr
Sažetak With the advancement of the marketization process, inventory management has
transformed from a single backup protection function to an essential function for enterprises …

An alternating direction method of multipliers for optimizing (s, S) policies in a distribution system with joint replenishment volume constraints

B Dai, H Chen, Y Li, Y Zhang, X Wang, Y Deng - Omega, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we study a two-echelon distribution system in which multiple products are
jointly replenished at each stocking location and the inventory of each product at each …