IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/isochp/978-3-319-15729-0_8.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Multi-Echelon Systems: Structures and Ordering Policies

In: Inventory Control

Author

Listed:
  • Sven Axsäter

    (Lund University)

Abstract

So far we have considered a single installation. In practice, though, it is also common to see multi-stage, or multi-echelon, inventory systems, where a number of installations are coupled to each other. For example, when distributing products over large geographical areas, many companies use an inventory system with a central warehouse close to the production facility and a number of local stocking points close to the customers in different areas. Similarly, in production, stocks of raw materials, components, and finished products are coupled to each other. To obtain efficient control of such inventory systems it is necessary to use special methods that take the connection between different stocks into account. In Chaps. 8–10 we will show when and how such methods can be used.

Suggested Citation

  • Sven Axsäter, 2015. "Multi-Echelon Systems: Structures and Ordering Policies," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: Inventory Control, edition 3, chapter 8, pages 147-170, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isochp:978-3-319-15729-0_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-15729-0_8
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:isochp:978-3-319-15729-0_8. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.