Optimal sourcing from alternative capacitated suppliers with general cost structures

Tan T., Alp O.

OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, cilt.58, ss.26-32, 2016 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 58
  • Basım Tarihi: 2016
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1016/j.omega.2015.03.011
  • Dergi Adı: OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.26-32
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Operations management, Inventory control, Value chain, Sourcing, Procurement, QUANTITY DISCOUNTS, SELECTION, ENVIRONMENT, PROCUREMENT, MANAGEMENT, INVENTORY
  • TED Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

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. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.