Research on Cement Inventory Control of Concrete Batching Plant Based on Batch Management

Xue Tan, Xiaochun Lu () and Zheng Ni
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Xue Tan: Beijing Jiaotong University
Xiaochun Lu: China State Railway Group Co., Ltd.
Zheng Ni: Beijing Jiaotong University

A chapter in LISS 2024, 2025, pp 209-217 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Effective inventory control of cement silos in large-scale construction projects is crucial. Due to the unique chemical properties of cement, batches stored in the same silo must be identical, leading to the necessity of integer-based inventory control for cement storage. Consequently, the inventory control model for cement is quite specialized. This paper adopts a batch management equal-bin inventory model and extends it to a multi-equal-bin model with continuous checking based on the 2-equal-bin model. The paper also considers the integer relationship between the capacity of cement silos and the capacity of cement transport trucks. The inclusion of a coefficient representing the multiples of cement truck capacity results in unconventional variations in the inventory cost curve as the number of cement silos increases, exhibiting multiple peaks that are difficult to derive through theoretical deduction. The inventory control strategy for the equal-bin system studied in this paper can offer insights and recommendations for the storage of materials in other tank systems.

Keywords: inventory control; engineering projects; multi-equal-bin model; cement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-9697-0_17

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