STRATEGIC INVENTORY OPTIMIZATION

✍ Scribed by Jeremy F. Shapiro; Stephen N. Wagner

• Book ID: 102870546
• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 756 KB
• Volume: 30
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0735-3766
• DOI: 10.1002/j.2158-1592.2009.tb00117.x

✦ Synopsis

A company's inventory metrics are often viewed as critical indicators of its supply chain performance although inventory costs are only a fraction of total supply chain costs comprised of supplier, manufacturing, transportation, and warehousing costs, as well as inventory costs. Moreover, inventories across the supply chain are dependent on acquisition and distribution decisions. We discuss how simulation and optimization models can be combined to integrate analysis of inventory and supply chain network design decisions in performing a total cost analysis. An application of the models to plans for distributing retail products to an expanding network of stores is reviewed.