Single period stochastic inventory problems with ordering or returns policies |
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Authors: | Zhong Yao Ke Liu |
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Affiliation: | a School of Economics and Management, BeiHang University, 100191 Beijing, China b Institute of Applied Mathematics, AMSS, The Chinese Academy of Science, 100080 Beijing, China c Department of Management Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China |
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Abstract: | In recent years, there has been an increasing adoption of returns policies in the coordination of the supply chain, where market demand is always assumed to be satisfied by manufacturing or by ordering from suppliers. However, many industries face the important decision of how to balance their inventory level. This problem has long been studied in financial institutions such as banks. This study presents an optimal inventory policy under a given stochastic demand such as a uniformly distributed demand, single-item, and single period review inventory system. The optimal inventory control policy obtained in this study is called a four-point policy: that is, when the entity’s inventory level is below a reorder point, the entity must increase his stock level by ordering and order up-to a fixed level (second point); when the entity’s inventory level is over a return point (third point); the stock level must be decreased by returns and decreased to a fixed level (fourth point); otherwise, nothing should be done. We also analyze the (K, S)-convex properties of the inventory cost function. |
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Keywords: | Operational management Newsboy problem Inventory control Numerical analysis |
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