We consider the initial procurement problem for a reparable inventory system [1,2]. We assume that the steady state number of items in the replenishment cycle has a Poisson distribution.
n: number of items
We minimize the following cost function f(x): ,
where : Spare amount of item , 0 ≤ ( = 1, 2, ... ,n)
The first term is the backorder penalty which is computed as the cost per backorder times the steady-state expected number of maximum backorders among the items. The second term is the cost of spares purchases.
This function is L-convex [3].
This web application minimizes f(x) using ODICON with IFF by Satoru Iwata.
[1] B.L. Miller (1971): A multi-item inventory model with joint backorder criterion, Operations Research, Vol. 19, pp. 1467-1476.
[2] B.L. Miller (1971): On minimizing nonseparable functions defined on the integers with an inventory application, SIAM J. on Appl. Math., Vol. 21, pp. 166-185.
[3] S. Moriguchi and K. Murota (2005): Discrete Hessian matrix for L-convex functions, IEICE Trans. Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences, Vol. E88-A, pp. 1104-1108.
Satoko Moriguchi, Nobuyuki Tsuchimura