INVENTORY CONTROL USING LINEAR FUNCTIONS FOR DUAL-CHANNEL SUPPLY CHAINS

This paper proposes a new inventory control technique for dual-channel supply chain. hi dual-channel supply chain, retail channel and direct channel by web exist. In the previous researches, Takahashi et al. [13 proposed new inventory control technique for dual-channel supply chain by using switching point that start and stop to produce and delivery. However, to use a linear function to switch, it can be expected to reduce inventory costs and switching costs. Therefore, in this paper, we propose inventory control using linear functions for dual-supply chain and show an effectiveness to compare with the previous paper of Takahashi et al. Ell by numerical experiments.