期刊名称：CORE Discussion Papers / Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (UCL), Louvain
出版年度：2008
卷号：1
出版社：Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (UCL), Louvain
摘要：We propose a tactical model which integrates the replenishment decision in inventory
management, the allocation of products to warehousing systems and the assignment of products to
storage locations in warehousing management. The purpose of this article is to analyse the value
of integrating warehouse and inventory decisions. This is achieved by proposing two methods for
solving this tactical integrated model which differ in the level of integration of the inventory and
warehousing decisions. A computational analysis is performed on a real world database and
using multiple scenarios differing by the warehouse capacity limits. Our observation is that the
total cost of the inventory and warehousing systems can be reduced drastically by taking into
account the warehouse capacity restrictions in the inventory planning decisions, in an aggregate
way. Moreover additional inventory and warehouse savings can be achieved by using more
sophisticated integration methods for inventory and warehousing decisions.
