An enterprise network is analyzed from the viewpoint of an end-product manufacturer who receives customer orders and organises his production and supply policy so as to minimize the sum of his average holding cost and average stock-out cost. For each main component to be ordered, the producer has several possible suppliers. The arrivals of customers’ orders are random and delivery times from su...

The paper describes a procedure for optimising the performance of an industrially designed inventory control system. This has the three classic control policies utilising sales, inventory and pipeline information to set the order rate so as to achieve a desired balance between capacity, demand and minimum associated stock level. A "rst step in optimisation is the selection of appropriate `bench...

We consider a multi-stage inventory control problem with nonstationary customer demand under a customer service-level constraint. We propose a multi-agent based model for distributed inventory control systems. In this model, the agent at the first stage is called a retail agent and those at the remaining stages are called supply agents. The retail agent makes an effort to satisfy a target custo...

The paper takes the operation center of D company as an example, studies the packing material inventory control. Grouping by ABC classification, the paper establishes the joint order of multi-item inventory control model to determine the optimal order cycle, achieving the purpose of reducing inventory levels and inventory cost. Keywords-packing materials; inventory; joint order; multi-item