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Two substitutable perishable product disaster inventory systems

VSS Yadavalli, D Krishna Sundar and Swaminathan Udayabaskaran
Journal Name
Annals of Operations Research
Journal Publication
others
Publication Year
2015
Journal Publications Functional Area
Production & Operations Management
Publication Date
Vol. 233, No. 1, October 2015, pp. 517-534
Abstract

A disaster inventory system is considered in which two substitutable items are stored for disaster management. In the event of disaster management, a particular product may become stock-out and the situation warrants that a demand for the particular product during its stock-out period may be substituted with another available similar product in the inventory. From the utility point of view, continuous review inventory models are quite appropriate in disaster inventory management. In this paper, a continuous review two substitutable perishable product disaster inventory model is proposed and analyzed. Since the inventory is maintained for disaster management, an adjustable joint reordering policy for replenishment is adopted. There is no lead time and the replenishment is instantaneous. For this model, some measures of system performance are obtained. The stationary behavior of the model is also considered. Numerical examples are also provided to illustrate the results obtained

Two substitutable perishable product disaster inventory systems

Author(s) Name: VSS Yadavalli, D Krishna Sundar and Swaminathan Udayabaskaran
Journal Name: Annals of Operations Research
Volume: Vol. 233, No. 1, October 2015, pp. 517-534
Year of Publication: 2015
Abstract:

A disaster inventory system is considered in which two substitutable items are stored for disaster management. In the event of disaster management, a particular product may become stock-out and the situation warrants that a demand for the particular product during its stock-out period may be substituted with another available similar product in the inventory. From the utility point of view, continuous review inventory models are quite appropriate in disaster inventory management. In this paper, a continuous review two substitutable perishable product disaster inventory model is proposed and analyzed. Since the inventory is maintained for disaster management, an adjustable joint reordering policy for replenishment is adopted. There is no lead time and the replenishment is instantaneous. For this model, some measures of system performance are obtained. The stationary behavior of the model is also considered. Numerical examples are also provided to illustrate the results obtained