Technical note: Some structural results on acyclic supply chains

✍ Scribed by Junmin Shi; Yao Zhao

• Book ID: 102545142
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 179 KB
• Volume: 57
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0894-069X
• DOI: 10.1002/nav.20421

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

We consider acyclic supply chains under the full backorder assumption and reveal several simple yet unique properties. Most interestingly, we identify conditions for the best dedicated stocking policy to outperform the best shared stocking policy, and for an acyclic supply chain to be decomposable into a simpler network (e.g., tree). We specify ways to decompose them. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics, 2010