Title
Determining safety stocks in the presence of workload-dependent lead times
Abstract
Most classical stochastic inventory models assume that replenishment lead times are independent of the amount of orders placed. This assumption is clearly problematic in capacitated production systems, where queueing models show that mean cycle time is a nonlinear increasing function of resource utilization. We use a simulation environment created for rapid prototyping of supply chains to examine the problem of setting safety stocks in environments with workload-dependent lead times. We show that even when extensive historical data is used, conventional approaches to setting safety stocks fail to provide the desired service level when lead times are load-dependent, and suggest directions for future research.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/WSC.2007.4419791
Winter Simulation Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
mean cycle time,capacitated production system,workload-dependent lead time,extensive historical data,safety stock,conventional approach,lead time,replenishment lead time,classical stochastic inventory model,resource utilization,supply chain,production system,stochastic processes,cycle time,supply chains,service level,queueing theory
Rapid prototyping,Service level,Safety stock,Systems engineering,Workload,Computer science,Simulation,Stochastic process,Queueing theory,Supply chain,Stock (geology)
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-4244-1306-0
1
0.43
References 
Authors
6
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Seza Orcun1474.92
Sila Çetinkaya214413.01
Reha Uzsoy399687.36