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Improving delivery performance for gamma distributed delivery time

Improving delivery performance for gamma distributed delivery time This paper investigates strategies for improving delivery performance to the end customer in a two-stage supply chain. A cost-based analytical model is used to evaluate how the expected penalty cost resulting from early and late delivery can be reduced. The effects of the width of the delivery window and the shape and scale parameters of the gamma distributed delivery time distribution on the expected penalty cost are explored. The model can guide practitioners who are attempting to cost-justify a program to improve delivery performance. It can also be used to estimate cost reduction over several deliveries and compare cost savings with required investments into delivery performance improvement. The model overcomes the limitations of previous delivery improvement studies which did not used an optimally positioned delivery window and were limited to symmetric delivery time distributions. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling Inderscience Publishers

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Publisher
Inderscience Publishers
Copyright
Copyright © Inderscience Enterprises Ltd
ISSN
1758-9401
eISSN
1758-941X
DOI
10.1504/IJBPSCM.2019.100823
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Abstract

This paper investigates strategies for improving delivery performance to the end customer in a two-stage supply chain. A cost-based analytical model is used to evaluate how the expected penalty cost resulting from early and late delivery can be reduced. The effects of the width of the delivery window and the shape and scale parameters of the gamma distributed delivery time distribution on the expected penalty cost are explored. The model can guide practitioners who are attempting to cost-justify a program to improve delivery performance. It can also be used to estimate cost reduction over several deliveries and compare cost savings with required investments into delivery performance improvement. The model overcomes the limitations of previous delivery improvement studies which did not used an optimally positioned delivery window and were limited to symmetric delivery time distributions.

Journal

International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain ModellingInderscience Publishers

Published: Jan 1, 2019

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