Optimal sourcing from alternative capacitated suppliers with general cost structures

Most manufacturers or retailers must procure items or services necessary for their businesses, in an environment that typically includes a number of competing suppliers with varying cost structures, price schemes, and capacities. In this paper, we consider the sourcing problem in which the buyer det...

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Vydáno v:Omega (Oxford) Ročník 58; s. 26 - 32
Hlavní autoři: Tan, Tarkan, Alp, Osman
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.01.2016
Pergamon Press Inc
Témata:
Cost structure
Discounts
Dynamic programming
Fixed costs
Inventory control
Operations management
Polynomials
Procurement
Sourcing
Studies
Value chain
Procurement
Operations management
Inventory control
Sourcing
Value chain
ISSN:0305-0483, 1873-5274
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Shrnutí:Most manufacturers or retailers must procure items or services necessary for their businesses, in an environment that typically includes a number of competing suppliers with varying cost structures, price schemes, and capacities. In this paper, we consider the sourcing problem in which the buyer determines the sources that should be utilized and to what extent, in turn, dictating the total quantity available for the buyer to sell/utilize, subject to stochastic demand/requirement. Our approach advocates not to determine the quantity to be sourced a priori. We allow for capacitated sources and any cost structure in which fixed costs and quantity discounts are special cases. Some simpler versions of this problem are shown to be NP-hard in the literature. By proving that the order of the sources is irrelevant for the optimal solution, we devise a dynamic programming model with pseudo-polynomial complexity to solve the multiple supplier sourcing problem to optimality. We propose two extensions: one limits the number of suppliers, and the other allows multi-period sourcing. •We solve the sourcing problem under general cost structures and stochastic demand.•We provide an exact pseudo-polynomial algorithm.•Procurement quantity might decrease when there are additional suppliers.•Our model allows for introducing supplier restrictions and multi-period sourcing.
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ISSN:0305-0483
1873-5274
DOI:10.1016/j.omega.2015.03.011