Models for Ordering Multiple Products Subject to Multiple Constraints, Quantity and Freight Discounts

• 作者: Cengiz Haksever John Moussourakis
• 来源期刊: 美国运筹学期刊(英文)
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: INVENTORY MIXED-INTEGER Linear Programming Quantity and FREIGHT Discounts All-Units and INCREMENTAL Discounts MULTIPLE Products and MULTIPLE Constraints
• 年，卷（期）: 2013,（6）
• 页码范围: 521-535
• 页数: 15页
• 分类号: R73

摘要

One of the most important responsibilities of a supply chain manager is to decide “how much” (or “many”) of inventory items to order and how to transport them. This paper presents four mixed-integer linear programming models to help supply chain managers make these decisions for multiple products subject to multiple constraints when suppliers offer quantity discounts and shippers offer freight discounts. Each model deals with one of the possible combinations of all-units, incremental quantity discounts, all-weight and incremental freight discounts. The models are based on a piecewise linear approximation of the number of orders function. They allow any number of linear constraints and determine if independent or common (fixed) cycle ordering has a lower total cost. Results of computational experiments on an example problem are also presented.