Managed Inventory Systems
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In Vendor-Managed Inventory systems the supplier is responsible for replenishing customers and for deciding when and how much to deliver. One of two inventory policies is typically employed by the supplier. The first one, called the maximum level (ML) policy, gives full freedom to the supplier to deliver any quantity as long as it respects customer inventory capacities. The alternative, much more constrained, is called the order-up-to (OU) policy. It states that the supplier has to bring the customer inventory up to its maximum capacity level upon delivery. We propose a new tactical policy, called optimized target level, under which when the supplier visits a customer, the quantity delivered is such that the final inventory will always be at the same customer-dependent optimized target level. We perform a computational evaluation of this new policy against both traditional strategies on benchmark instances. We show that it yields lower costs and inventory levels than the OU policy, and is only marginally more expensive than the ML policy, while being easier to implement.
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