Staggering Periodic Replenishment in Multivendor JIT Environments

• Main Authors: HUM, Sin-Hoon, MOOSA, Sharafali, TEO, Chung-Piaw
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2005
• Subjects: Operations and Supply Chain Management; Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/884; https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.1040.0196
• Institution: Singapore Management University

The delivery scheduling problem studied in this paper was motivated by the operation in a large personal computer assembly plant, which was using multisourcing for some of its materials. The company's objective was to design a delivery schedule so that the average inventory level in the factory...