Abstract
In practice it is quite common to have several parallel regional warehouses when distributing products over a large geographical area. Each warehouse is then providing service to a certain local market. The regional warehouses normally replenish their stocks from a common supplier. In the event of a stockout at a warehouse it may be advantageous, however, to replenish from a nearby parallel warehouse instead of from the common supplier. Such lateral transshipments may improve the service-performance of the total system considerably. Therefore, many companies use lateral transshipments systematically. It is, in general, quite difficult, though, to model lateral transshipments in inventory systems, and most inventory models assume that such transshipments are not allowed.
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Axsäter, S. (1991). An Inventory Model with Lateral Transshipments. In: Fandel, G., Zäpfel, G. (eds) Modern Production Concepts. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76401-1_22
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