International Journal of Supply Chain Management
Vol 8, No 1 (2019): International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM)

The Model for Determining Rational Inventory in Occasional Demand Supply Chains

Evgenii.G. Anisimov (Unknown)
Murat R. Gapov (Unknown)
Evgeniia.S. Rodionova (Unknown)
Tatiana Saurenko (Peoples Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University))



Article Info

Publish Date
26 Feb 2019

Abstract

In order to ensure continuous demand for products in cases where it is impossible or economically inexpedient to fully combine the product supply volume and terms with the moments of appearing demand for it in the occasional demand supply chains, the necessity for inventory appears. High cost of maintaining inventory and significant losses due to its deficit cause an important issue of determining the rational inventory in occasional demand supply chains. The article proposes a model for determining the rational inventory with a fixed period of its replenishment and occasional demand. The peculiarity of the model consists in taking into account the finite, but a priori unknown, quantity of consumers characteristic of real demand and using small samples to characterize the model parameters. It allows for more adequate, comparing to the traditional model use, determination of rational inventory of the products in the supply chains.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJSCM

Publisher

Subject

Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Engineering Environmental Science Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Transportation

Description

International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM) is a peer-reviewed indexed journal, ISSN: 2050-7399 (Online), 2051-3771 (Print), that publishes original, high quality, supply chain management empirical research that will have a significant impact on SCM theory and practice. Manuscripts ...