Managing premium wines using an (s-1, s) inventory policy: a heuristic solution approach

Varas, Mauricio; Basso, Franco; Luer-Villagra, Armin; Mac Cawley, Alejandro; Maturana, Sergio

Abstract

Operations research models are increasingly being used to support decision making in the wine industry. However, they have not yet been used to support inventory management decisions. In this paper, we develop a heuristic procedure for managing the stock of premium wines motivated by the operations of a small export-focused winery we worked with. Following an (s-1, s)inventory policy, we assume that the decision maker aims to minimize the steady-state expected values of work in process, overage, and underage costs. The developed heuristic is as follows. First, we approximate the dynamics of the labeling process by a group scheduling policy to obtain the mean delays for each labeled product. Then, we address the problem of setting the inventory positions for the whole product portfolio by solving one newsvendor-type problem for each end-product. We provide some theoretical insights, a numerical example, and we analyze the accuracy of our procedure.

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Título según WOS: Managing premium wines using an (s-1, s) inventory policy: a heuristic solution approach
Título según SCOPUS: Managing premium wines using an (s- 1 , s) inventory policy: a heuristic solution approach
Título de la Revista: ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Volumen: 280
Número: 01-feb
Editorial: Springer
Fecha de publicación: 2019
Página de inicio: 351
Página final: 376
Idioma: English
DOI:

10.1007/s10479-019-03266-3

Notas: ISI, SCOPUS