A Two-Product Inventory Model with a Joint Ordering Policy
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2013-10-12
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Abstract
Inventory is one of themost visible and tangible aspects of doing business.This is the reason whymost problems of a business often
end up in inventory. Most inventory studies focus on a single type of product or item such that optimality decisions are arrived at
for that single product. In this study, we create a scenario where two types of products are considered in such a way that there exists
a joint ordering policy. A continuous review inventory model was developed but ended up with a single period review model for
simplicity reasons.We tried to exhaust all main cost elements and fed them into the model in addition to investigating the possible
limitations that may constrain the whole decision making process. Six constraints were found and a mathematical programming
model was developed. We further went on to prove that the mathematical inventory-programming model developed minimises
the total inventory cost in such a scenario.
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This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which
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Masache, A. (2013) ‘A Two-Product inventory model with a joint ordering policy’, Advances in Decision Sciences, 2013, pp. 1–5. doi: 10.1155/2013/595074.