Journal
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
Volume 242, Issue 2, Pages 424-433Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2014.10.015
Keywords
Inventory control; Lateral transshipments; Emergency replenishments; Pooling; Doubly stochastic Poisson process
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We consider a single-echelon continuous review inventory system for spare parts with two parallel locations. Each location faces independent Poisson demand and backorders are allowed. In this paper we consider the possibility of lateral transshipments between the locations. The transshipment leadtime is positive and deterministic, and there is an additional cost for making a transshipment. We suggest a transshipment policy which is based on the timing of all outstanding orders, and develop and solve a heuristic model by using theory and concepts from doubly stochastic Poisson processes and also partial differential equations. A simulation study indicates that our heuristic works very well, and that the relative cost increase of disregarding the transshipment leadtime may be quite high. Our results also indicate that it is, in general, worth the effort of reducing the transshipment leadtime, even if it is already relatively short. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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