Strategic Safety Stocks in Supply Chains

ISBN-13: 9783540678717 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 214 str.

Stefan Minner; S. Minner; Stefan Minner

Opis

This text presents approaches for safety stock determination in manufacturing and logistics networks. The approach presented in this book follows a material flow philosophy that allows for several extensions of the basic models and so offers a wide applicability within decision support systems.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Single-Echelon Inventory Models: Terminology and Classification.- Single-Product Inventory Modeling.- Safety Stock Planning Under Service Level Constraints.- Feedforward Versus Feedback Inventory Control.- Materials Coordination in Supply Chains: Multi-Echelon Production/Inventory Systems.- Concepts of Information and Material Flow.- Safety Stocks in Multi-Echelon Systems: Serial Systems.- Divergent Systems.- Convergent Systems.- General Systems.- Comparative Analysis of Heuristic Solution Procedures.- Cyclic Systems with External and Internal Returns.- Extensions.- Concluding Remarks: Appendix