Abstract

To ease the conflict between quick response and product variety, more and more business models are developed in supply chains. Among these, the form postponement (FP) strategy is an efficient tool and has been widely adopted. To the supply chain with FP strategy, the design mostly involves two problems: determination of customer order decoupling point (CODP) position and semi-finished product inventory control. In this paper, we develop a two-stage tandem queueing network with MAP arrival to address this issue. Particularly, we introduce a Markov arrival process (MAP) to characterize the correlation of the demand. By using of matrix geometric method, we derive several performance measure of the supply chain, such as inventory level and unfill rate. Our numerical examples show that both the variance and the correlation coefficient of the demand lead to more delayed CODP position and more total cost.

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