Operational hedging through dual-sourcing under capacity uncertainty

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Abstract

This paper studies a periodic-review dual-sourcing inventory system with demand and supply capacity uncertainty. Compared with dual-sourcing models with deterministic supply capacities, a challenge here is that the objective functions in the dynamic programming recursions are not convex in the ordering quantities. To address this challenge, a powerful transformation technique is developed which converts a non- convex minimization problem to an equivalent convex minimization problem. In addition, the transformation preserves L\-convexity, allowing one to derive structural properties of the optimal policies for the dual-sourcing problem with random supply capacity. Dual-index policies are shown to be optimal under certain conditions. The effects of supply capacity uncertainties on the system performance are investigated.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)46-64
Number of pages19
JournalFoundations and Trends in Technology, Information and Operations Management
Volume11
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 21 2017

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Management Science and Operations Research

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