A vendor-buyer coordinated system featuring an unreliable machine, scrap, outsourcing, and multiple shipments
- 1 January 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Growing Science in International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations
- Vol. 11 (3), 341-358
- https://doi.org/10.5267/j.ijiec.2020.1.004
Abstract
Operating in today's highly competitive global markets, transnational enterprises always seek to optimize internal vendor-buyer coordinated systems to ensure timeliness and quality deliveries, given the reality of unreliable machines and limited capacity. To facilitate accurate decision making to help organizations gain competitive advantages in such situations, this study explores an intra-supply-chain problem featuring a partial outsourcing batch fabrication plan, random scrap, Poisson-distributed breakdown rate, and multiple shipments of end-product. First, we build a model to characterize the problem clearly. Then, we carry out formulations, analyses, and derivations of the model to attain the problem's cost function. We then use differential calculus and propose a specific algorithm to confirm the convexity of the obtained cost function and derive the optimal runtime. Finally, we offer a numerical illustration to demonstrate the result's applicability for other business circumstances. Additional elements of the problem are then discussed, including the individual and combined influence of variations in scrap, outsourcing, breakdown, and shipping frequency. The features of an optimal operating policy and cost relevant parameters are now revealed to assist management with strategic planning and decision making in real-world intra-supply-chain environments. (C) 2020 by the authors; licensee Growing Science, CanadaKeywords
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