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Centralized and decentralized control polices for a two-stage stochastic supply chain with subcontracting

Kouikoglou Vasilis, Georgios Saharidis, Yves Dallery

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URI: http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/101C6FEC-60FE-41BA-B33D-2142089CFF61
Year 2009
Type of Item Peer-Reviewed Journal Publication
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Bibliographic Citation G.K.D. Saharidis, V.S. Kouikoglou, Y. Dallery ," Centralized and decentralized control polices for a two-stage stochastic supply chain with subcontracting," Intern. J. of Production Ec.,vol. 117 ,no.1,pp. 117-126,Jan. 2009.doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2008.10.001 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2008.10.001
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An analysis of control policies for a two-stage supply chain with subcontractors at each stage is presented when decisions at each stage concerning safety stocks, backorders, and subcontracting are made jointly or in a decentralized manner. The inventory/admission control policies considered are base stock, echelon base stock and partial backordering, and the objective is to maximize the mean profit rate of the system. The optimal control parameters are found by exhaustive search using Markov chains. From numerical examples it appears that the policies which manage jointly sales and production levels in each stage provide much higher overall (system) profits than decentralized policies, although the latter are individually more profitable for the second stage. In addition, partial backordering provides the system with an extra profit above those that result from the lost sales (no backordering) and complete backordering policies. Finally, a number of numerical results show the impact of variations in certain system parameters on the optimal control parameters and the corresponding profit.

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