Resilience toward supply disruptions: A stochastic inventory control model with partial backordering under the base stock policy
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Tafakkori, K
Thaichon, P
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This paper examines supply-side disruptions using an inventory management framework to gain insights into the economic performance of buyers who use two conventional costing strategies – end-of-cycle and continuous. The proposed model assumes that a single supplier faces full disruptions with a probability, and therefore, fails to procure all the items ordered. Accordingly, the buyer experiences unmet demand, which is assumed to be partially backordered. To make proper replenishment decisions, two base stock (S,T) periodic review optimization models are developed. The objective functions minimize the expected long-run total costs (i.e., ordering, holding, and shortage). After proving their convexity and obtaining the optimal decisions, computational experiments were carried out to investigate the impacts of the change in parameters. The results highlight the importance of selecting a suitable ratio for backorders during supply disruptions, as it leads to lower costs and reduces the inventory obsolescence and overstocking risks. Moreover, the managerial insights derived from this study aid retailers to make better replenishment decisions (in terms of level and frequency) and to be more resilient in times of disruptions. Retailers can benefit from the provided solution algorithm as a computational application.
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Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services
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58
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Marketing
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Commercial services
Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
Transportation, logistics and supply chains
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Taleizadeh, AA; Tafakkori, K; Thaichon, P, Resilience toward supply disruptions: A stochastic inventory control model with partial backordering under the base stock policy, Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2021, 58, pp. 102291