Questions tagged [supply-chain]
For questions related to Operations Research approaches for modeling, managing, or optimizing supply chains, systems designed to move goods from where they are produced to where they are consumed.
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Buyback policy in a supply chain
Consider a three level supply chain consisting of a manufacturer, a wholesaler and a retailer. Suppose I wish to include a buyback contract to this network. Then am I right when I say that wholesaler ...
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Holding cost vs carrying cost vs storage cost
I was reading an article on supply chain management and encountered a number of inventory costs like ordering, carrying, shortage, holding, storage costs. I cannot understand the difference between ...
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Approaches for choosing a “risk” factor in an Inventory Optimization problem?
I'm working on an Inventory Optimization (Allocation) problem.
The decision variable is the amount of inventory budget to allocate for each product, from a set of products. My objective is to ...
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Queuing models in R, $\lambda$ Little
It's noted that the number of folks in a stationary system will maintain an average equal to the rate of arrival multiplied by the mean of the service distribution.
Where the formula $L = \lambda w$ ...
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Good distribution assumptions for customer demand in a supply chain
Why do we normally assume normal distribution/Poisson distribution for customer demand in a supply chain? Are there other good distribution assumptions?
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Supply Chain Public Data Repository
I was wondering if there is any repository of datasets for supply chain problems. For example, the UC Irvine Machine Learning Repository contains datasets for ML, and MIPLIB is used as a benchmark for ...
