Optimizing Strategic Safety Stock Placement in Two-Layer Supply Chains

In this paper, we minimize the holding cost of the safety stock in the supply chain subject to linear constraints on the service times between the nodes of the network. In the problem, the objective function is concave as we assume the demand to be bounded by a concave function. The optimal solution...

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Main Author: Lesnaia, Ekaterina
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: 2003
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3751