A hedging policy for carriers’ selection under availability and demand uncertainty

Yassin Feki, Adnène Hajji and Monia Rekik

Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2016, vol. 85, issue C, 149-165

Abstract: We address a stochastic dynamic distribution problem where a family of products needs to be shipped from a warehouse to a distribution center (DC). Uncertainty is on carriers’ availability and demand at the DC. Internal, external and spot carriers must be optimally selected to minimize the expected discounted cost of transportation, inventories and shortages. We numerically prove that an optimal selection policy, SDMBSP, is based on three thresholds of the available inventory in the DC. A simulation model is proposed and proves the robustness of the SDMBSP and its outperformance over two other carrier selection policies.

Keywords: Carrier selection; Operational level; Stochastic dynamic context; Numerical schema; Simulation modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2015.11.011

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