CAREER: Coordination of Transportation and Inventory Decision - Premises, Models, and Justification

职业：运输和库存决策的协调 - 前提、模型和理由

• 批准号: 0093654
• 负责人: Sila Cetinkaya
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-06-01 至 2009-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0093654&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Coordination; Transportation; Inventory; Decision

This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) grant provides funding for an investigation of the latest industrial trends in integrated logistical management. The major concentration is on recent supply chain initiatives enabling the integration of transportation and inventory decisions. The specific initiatives of interest include Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI), Third Party Warehousing/Distribution (3PW/D), and Time Definite Delivery (TDD) applications. Under these initiatives, substantial savings are realizable by carefully incorporating a shipment strategy with inventory replenishment decisions. The impact is particularly tangible when the shipment strategy calls for a consolidation program where several smaller deliveries are dispatched as a combined load realizing the scale economies inherent in transportation. Recognizing a need for analytical research in the field, this project concentrates on analysis of integrated policies where shipment consolidation and inventory control decisions are coordinated under VMI, 3PW/D, and TDD agreements.The research objective is to develop a modeling framework and theoretical understanding of integration issues in the context of these supply chain initiatives. The goal is to address the question of under what conditions integration works and to render insights into distribution policy design and operational control. The research agenda of this career plan has been developed in collaboration with industry. Hence, if successful, the results will provide a better understanding of real-life integration problems in supply chain practices. On the educational side, in response to a growing demand for a new generation of logistics engineers, this career plan builds on industrial collaboration. In partnership with industry, new educational materials and courses that unify the practice and theory of integrated logistics will be developed, and new student projects will be designed to satisfy the needs of students in pursuit of careers in this emerging field.

学院早期职业发展(Career)补助金提供资金，用于调查综合后勤管理的最新行业趋势。主要集中在最近的供应链倡议上，使运输和库存决策能够整合。感兴趣的具体计划包括供应商管理库存(VMI)、第三方仓储/配送(3PW/D)和限时交货(TDD)应用。在这些举措下，通过谨慎地将发货战略与库存补充决策结合起来，可以实现大量节省。当发货战略要求整合计划时，影响尤其明显，在该计划中，几个较小的交付被作为组合负载调度，实现运输所固有的规模经济。认识到现场分析研究的需要，本项目集中分析综合政策，其中发货合并和库存控制决策在VMI、3PW/D和TDD协议下协调。研究目标是在这些供应链倡议的背景下发展对集成问题的建模框架和理论理解。目标是解决在什么条件下整合工作的问题，并对分配政策设计和业务控制提出见解。这份职业计划的研究议程是与工业界合作制定的。因此，如果成功，研究结果将有助于更好地理解供应链实践中的现实整合问题。在教育方面，为了应对对新一代物流工程师日益增长的需求，这一职业计划建立在行业合作的基础上。与产业界合作，将开发新的教材和课程，将综合物流的实践和理论统一起来，并将设计新的学生项目，以满足学生在这一新兴领域追求职业的需求。