On the single item multi-supplier system with variable lead-time, price-quantity discount, and resource constraints

Applied Mathematics and Computation

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 89-97

  Chang, Ching Ter ^a   Chin, Chen Lung ^b   Lin, Mei Feng ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YUNLIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Lead time; Multi supplier; Price quantity discount; Resource constraints

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DECISION MAKING; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INVENTORY CONTROL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

LEAD TIME; MULTISUPPLIERS; PRICE QUANTITY DISCOUNT; RESOURCE CONSTRAINTS;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 33750822822     PISSN: 00963003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amc.2006.03.038     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Benton W.C. Quantity discount decisions under conditions of multiple items, multiple suppliers and resource limitations. International Journal of Production Research 29 (1991) 1953-1961
2. Ben-daya M., and Roaouf A. Inventory models involving lead time as a decision variable. Journal of the Operational Research Society 4 5 (1994) 579-582
3. Chiang C., and Benton W.C. Sole sourcing versus dual sourcing under stochastic lead times. Naval Research Logistic 41 (1994) 609-624
4. Chang C.-T., and Chang S.-C. On the inventory model with variable lead time and price-quantity discount. Journal of the Operational Research Society (Accepted) (2001)
5. Fazanch F., Fischer K.P., and Gilbert E.W. JIT purchasing vs. EOQ with a price discount: an analytical comparison of inventory costs. International Journal of Production Economics 54 (1998) 101-109
6. Grant M.R. EOQ and price break analysis in a JIT environment. Production and Inventory Management Journal (1993) 64-69
7. Guo Y., and Ganeshan R. Are more suppliers better. Journal of the Operational Research Society 46 (1995) 892-895
8. Gupta O.K., and Kini R.B. Is price-quantity discount dead or in a just-in-time environment?. International Journal of Operations & Production Management 1 9 (1995) 261-270
9. Hayya J.C., Christy D.P., and Pan A. Reducing inventory uncertainty: a reorder point system with two vendors. Production and Inventory Management 28 (1987) 43-49
10. Harrige M., and Ben-daya M. Some stochastic inventory models with deterministic variable lead time. European Journal of Operational Research 113 (1999) 42-51
11. Hwang H., et al. An EOQ model with quantity discounts for both purchasing price and freight cost. Computers and Operations Research 1 1 (1990) 73-78
12. Kelle P., and Silver E.A. Safety stock reduction by order splitting. Naval Research Logistics 37 (1990) 725-743
13. Kelle P., and Silver E.A. Decreasing expected shortages through order splitting. Engineering Costs and Production Economics 19 (1990) 351-357
14. Lan S.-P., Chu P., Chung K.-J., Wan W.-J., and Lo R. A simple method to locate the optimal solution of the inventory model with variable lead time. Computers and Operations Research 26 (1999) 599-605
15. Lee H.L., and Rosenblatt M.J. A generalized quantity discount pricing model to increase supplier's profits. Management Science 3 9 (1986) 1177-1185
16. Liao C.J., and Shyu C.H. An analytical determination of lead time with normal demand. International Journal of Operations and Production Management 1 9 (1991) 72-78
17. Lau H., and Zhao L. Optimal ordering policies with two suppliers when lead times and demands are all stochastic. European Journal of Operational Research 68 (1993) 120-133
18. LINGO, LINDO Systems, Inc.1415 N. Dayton Chicago Illinois, 1998.
19. Ouyang L.Y., Yeh N.C., and Wu K.S. Mixture inventory model with backorders and lost sales for variable lead time. Journal of the Operational Research Society 47 (1996) 833-838
20. Ouyang L.Y., and Wu K.S. A minimax distribution free procedure for mixed inventory model with variable lead time. International Journal of Production Economics 56-57 (1998) 511-516
21. Ouyang L.Y., and Chuang B.R. A minimac distribution free procedure for mixed inventory models with a random backorder rate. Journal of the Operations Research Society of Japan 42 3 (1999) 342-351
22. Pan A.C., Ramasesh R.V., Hayya J.C., and Ord J.K. Multiple sourcing: the determination of lead times. Operations Research Letters 10 (1991) 1-7
23. Ramasesh R.V., Ord J.K., and Hayya J.C. Note: dual sourcing with nonidentical suppliers. Naval Research Logistics 40 (1993) 279-288
24. Rosenblatt M.J., Herer Y.T., and Hefter I. Note. An acquisition policy for a single item multi-supplier system. Management Science 44 (1998) S96-S100
25. Sculli D., and Shum Y.W. Analysis of a continuous review stock-control model with multiple suppliers. Journal of the Operational Research Society 41 (1990) 873-877
26. Chang C.-T. An efficient approach for mixed integer problem. European Journal of Operational Research 123 (2000) 652-659
27. Li H.-L., and Yu C.-S. A global optimization method for nonconvex separable problems. European Journal of Operational Research 117 (1999) 275-292
28. Chang C.-T. On the posynomial fractional programming problems. European Journal of Operational Research 143 (2002) 42-52