Open AccessMATHEMATICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE DISTRIBUTION LOGISTICS PROCESSES OF CONSIGNMENT SELLER DIETARY SUPPLEMENT MANUFACTURING COMPANIES
Author(s) -
Szabolcs Szentesi,
Béla Illés,
Tamás Péter
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of production engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2956-2252
pISSN - 1821-4932
DOI - 10.24867/jpe-2021-01-039
Subject(s) - consignment , supply chain , business , stock (firearms) , commission , industrial organization , operations research , commerce , operations management , computer science , marketing , economics , engineering , finance , mechanical engineering
Consignment sales are a special case of supply chains, as the products are never the property of the seller, so the distribution logistics network and the logic of the structure of the products are radically different from those of normal supply chains. Another problem is that the products have a shelf life. The inventory mechanism (qmin; qmax) is most often used for the commissioned stocks of companies producing food supplements and when checking the central inventory, i.e. replenishment to the maximum stock level when a certain stock level is reached. There are several factors to consider when filling up commission stocks and reviewing them by period. With the mathematical correlations of these factors, it is possible to distribute the commissioned finished products optimally. The paper deals with this problem.