Operations planning in a supply chain system with fixed-interval deliveries of finished goods to multiple customers

摘要: Raw material ordering policy and the manufacturing batch size for fixed-interval deliveries of finished goods to multiple customers play a significant role in economically managing supply chain logistics. This paper develops an raw materials determines economic product at center which supplies products customers, with fixed-quantity fixed time-interval each customers. In this model, optimal multi-ordering procurement single system is developed minimize total cost incurred due inventories. The carried over inventory from previous cycle used as initial inventory, resulting shifting production schedule ahead next cycle. A closed-form solution problem obtained minimal cost. algorithm demonstrated customer systems.