The optimal order policy for a capacitated multiple product inventory system under symmetry

Although many researches have conjectured the optimality of the hedging point policy for the multiple-product stochastic capacitated periodic review problem, it is still a challenge to prove the hypothesis. This paper considers a special case of the capacitated multiple-product periodic review probl...

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Main Authors: Feng, Yi, Chen, Shaoxiang, Dai, Wenqiang
Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/79449
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/38480
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:Although many researches have conjectured the optimality of the hedging point policy for the multiple-product stochastic capacitated periodic review problem, it is still a challenge to prove the hypothesis. This paper considers a special case of the capacitated multiple-product periodic review problem where stochastic demand distribution, production rate, unit production cost and periodic expected inventory cost are the same for all different products. For this symmetric problem, we prove an optimal policy where ordering and non-ordering regions for every product are defined. Our research provides significant implications to the characterization of the optimal policy for the general problem.