Impact of inventory sharing on service availability and transportation levels in time-differentiated distribution

Mohsin Nasir Jat and Raza Ali Rafique

International Journal of Inventory Research, 2017, vol. 4, issue 1, 23-43

Abstract: This paper studies service availability and transportation performance measures considering a service system with two delivery time-window options. The performance measures are examined through a simulation analysis comparing inventory sharing and non-sharing scenarios under a centralised and a decentralised setup of service facilities. The analysis considers varying demand composition in terms of demand percentages of different service time options. Unlike the existing work in this area, the paper takes into account the spatial factor and argues that considering a uniform cost of alternate shipments may not be appropriate. The analysis highlights that there might be instances where introducing inventory sharing does not implicate an inventory-transportation performance trade off.

Keywords: inventory sharing; service logistics; distribution; service time differentiation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.inderscience.com/link.php?id=85374 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijires:v:4:y:2017:i:1:p:23-43

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in International Journal of Inventory Research from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sarah Parker ().