Abstract

DIAZ-BATISTA, José Antonio  and  PEREZ-ARMAYOR, Dania. Inventory levels optimization in a supply chain. Ing. Ind. [online]. 2012, vol.33, n.2, pp. 126-132. ISSN 1815-5936.

Inventory management is a strongly observed subject in Operations Management and Operations Research, seeking for inventory management cost optimization. Traditional inventory models mainly deal with optimization inside a single enterprise. Yet, actually the supply chain concept has begun to overcome others approaches in the business management area. Supply chain management seeks customer satisfaction through material, financial and informational flows that are establish throughout the chain, from suppliers until the final consumer. This requires certain level of coordination and integration among supply chain members. This paper studies join supplier-buyer inventory optimization, comparing them with traditional non-collaborative policies, and analyzing advantages of this collaborative approach in the total inventory costs of the supply chain.

Keywords : supply chains; inventories; optimization.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )