Browsing by Author "Shang, KH"

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Improving supply chain performance: Real-time demand information and flexible deliveries

Shang, KH; Zhou, SX; Van Houtum, GJ (Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 2010-06-01)

In some supply chains, materials are ordered periodically according to local information. This paper investigates how to improve the performance of such a supply chain. Specifically, we consider a serial inventory system ...
Optimal and Heuristic Echelon (r,nQ,T) policies in serial inventory systems with fixed costs

Shang, KH; Zhou, SX (Operations Research, 2010-03-01)

This paper studies a periodic-review, serial inventory system in which echelon (r,nQ,T) policies are implemented. Under such a policy, each stage reviews its inventory in every T period and orders according to an echelon ...