کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
386954 660893 2009 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Situation reactive approach to Vendor Managed Inventory problem
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی کامپیوتر هوش مصنوعی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Situation reactive approach to Vendor Managed Inventory problem
چکیده انگلیسی

In this research, we deal with VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory) problem where one supplier is responsible for managing a retailer’s inventory under unstable customer demand situation. To cope with the nonstationary demand situation, we develop a retrospective action-reward learning model, a kind of reinforcement learning techniques, which is faster in learning than conventional action-reward learning and more suitable to apply to the control domain where rewards for actions vary over time. The learning model enables the inventory control to become situation reactive in the sense that replenishment quantity for the retailer is automatically adjusted at each period by adapting to the change in customer demand. The replenishment quantity is a function of compensation factor that has an effect of increasing or decreasing the replenishment amount. At each replenishment period, a cost-minimizing compensation factor value is chosen in the candidate set. A simulation based experiment gave us encouraging results for the new approach.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Expert Systems with Applications - Volume 36, Issue 5, July 2009, Pages 9039–9045
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