Date on Master's Thesis/Doctoral Dissertation
8-2013
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Degree Name
M.S.
Department
Industrial Engineering
Committee Chair
Bai, Lihui
Author's Keywords
Fill rate; Monte Carlo simulation; Base stock policy; Periodic review
Subject
Business logistics; Monte Carlo method
Abstract
Fill rate is one of the most important measurements for inventory systems in the supply chain management. The primary goal of this thesis is to give a comprehensive review of existing analytical expressions for the system fill rate, and provide numerical comparison for all relevant expressions in terms of their accuracy against (simulated) fill rate from the Monte Carlo simulation. We prove relationships between several expressions. Although majority of the expressions discussed herein are designed for standard periodic review system, we conduct numerical simulations for the general periodic review system. Under this general periodic review setting, numerical results indicate that all else being equal, replenishment lead time has larger effect on the system's fill rate than does the review interval. In addition, numerical comparison suggests that Johnson et al.'s approach, Zhang and Zhang's approach, Hadley and Whitin's approach dominate the traditional approach, exponential approximation and Silver's modified approach. The dominance is especially true for cases with high demand variability. For general periodic review system, our numerical results indicate that scaling is necessary for Silver's modified, Johnson et al.'s and Johnson et al.'s modified approaches.
Recommended Citation
Luo, Peiyu, "A numerical study of expressions for fill rate for single stage inventory system with periodic review." (2013). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 866.
https://doi.org/10.18297/etd/866
