Increasing Efficiency in Inventory Control of Products with Sporadic Demand Using Simulation

The goal of this paper is to examine whether, in Q-system inventory control policy, a combination of the reorder point exceeding order quantity leads to minimal holding and ordering costs when dealing with sporadic demand. For this purpose, a past stock movement simulation is applied to a set of ran...

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Main Authors: Katerina Huskova, Jakub Dyntar
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Language:ces
Published: Prague University of Economics and Business 2022-08-01
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Online Access:https://aip.vse.cz/artkey/aip-202202-0007_increasing-efficiency-in-inventory-control-of-products-with-sporadic-demand-using-simulation.php
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description The goal of this paper is to examine whether, in Q-system inventory control policy, a combination of the reorder point exceeding order quantity leads to minimal holding and ordering costs when dealing with sporadic demand. For this purpose, a past stock movement simulation is applied to a set of randomly generated data with different numbers of zero demand periods ranging from 10 to 90%. The outputs of the simulation prove that in situations where stock holding costs are too high, the simulation tends to reduce average stock by overcoming periods between two demand peaks with an increase in the numbers of small replenishment orders and reaches lower stock holding and ordering costs. Furthermore, the correlation analysis proves that there is a statistically significant relationship (r = .847, p = .004) between the number of time series that reach minimal holding and ordering costs under the control of reorder point (replenishment order) and the demand standard deviation affected by the evolving sporadicity. These findings can support decision making linked with inventory management of products with sporadic demand and contribute to development of business information systems.
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spelling doaj.art-8d1c4bd387d64ca59334be2ecd3bd2b52022-12-22T04:05:15ZcesPrague University of Economics and BusinessActa Informatica Pragensia1805-49512022-08-0111225426410.18267/j.aip.184aip-202202-0007Increasing Efficiency in Inventory Control of Products with Sporadic Demand Using SimulationKaterina Huskova0Jakub Dyntar1Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Liberec, Voroněžská 13, 46001 Liberec, Czech RepublicFaculty of Economics, Technical University of Liberec, Voroněžská 13, 46001 Liberec, Czech RepublicThe goal of this paper is to examine whether, in Q-system inventory control policy, a combination of the reorder point exceeding order quantity leads to minimal holding and ordering costs when dealing with sporadic demand. For this purpose, a past stock movement simulation is applied to a set of randomly generated data with different numbers of zero demand periods ranging from 10 to 90%. The outputs of the simulation prove that in situations where stock holding costs are too high, the simulation tends to reduce average stock by overcoming periods between two demand peaks with an increase in the numbers of small replenishment orders and reaches lower stock holding and ordering costs. Furthermore, the correlation analysis proves that there is a statistically significant relationship (r = .847, p = .004) between the number of time series that reach minimal holding and ordering costs under the control of reorder point (replenishment order) and the demand standard deviation affected by the evolving sporadicity. These findings can support decision making linked with inventory management of products with sporadic demand and contribute to development of business information systems.https://aip.vse.cz/artkey/aip-202202-0007_increasing-efficiency-in-inventory-control-of-products-with-sporadic-demand-using-simulation.phpsporadic demandinventory controlerpenterprise resource planningsimulationoperations research
spellingShingle Katerina Huskova
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Increasing Efficiency in Inventory Control of Products with Sporadic Demand Using Simulation
Acta Informatica Pragensia
sporadic demand
inventory control
erp
enterprise resource planning
simulation
operations research
title Increasing Efficiency in Inventory Control of Products with Sporadic Demand Using Simulation
title_full Increasing Efficiency in Inventory Control of Products with Sporadic Demand Using Simulation
title_fullStr Increasing Efficiency in Inventory Control of Products with Sporadic Demand Using Simulation
title_full_unstemmed Increasing Efficiency in Inventory Control of Products with Sporadic Demand Using Simulation
title_short Increasing Efficiency in Inventory Control of Products with Sporadic Demand Using Simulation
title_sort increasing efficiency in inventory control of products with sporadic demand using simulation
topic sporadic demand
inventory control
erp
enterprise resource planning
simulation
operations research
url https://aip.vse.cz/artkey/aip-202202-0007_increasing-efficiency-in-inventory-control-of-products-with-sporadic-demand-using-simulation.php
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