Multi-items ordering model considering transportation constraint on the inventory management

Abstract

Ordering multi-items from a vendor is a standard business practice. It is also common for a purchaser to have some constraints such as a budgetary limitation, warehouse capacity restriction or transportation problems. As a result, the problem of making ordering decisions for multi-items with various constraints is regarded as an important issue on the inventory management. In this paper, we propose a new ordering model for multi-items with the mixed parts transportation problem based on the warehouse system. Order range is especially introduced and used as decision parameters instead of order point to order multi-items. Finally, a numerical example and computational results are given to illustrate the proposed model.

Design of Storage Management Information System and Analysis of the Information Flow

“…The efficiency of warehouse-out can be improved greatly by area assignment in the warehouse. In the condition of automatic warehousing, the area of goods can be assigned by system automatically, and it is not necessary to arrange these goods artificially [7] .…”

A multi-item ordering model in the (s, S ) inventory system

“…as transportation constraints. • Order range instead of order point is introduced and used in the proposed model [1].…”