A procurement model using capacity reservation

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

European Journal of Operational Research

Abstract

In this paper we model a scenario where a buyer reserves capacity from one or more suppliers in the presence of demand uncertainty. We explicitly derive suppliers' capacity reservation price, which is a function of their capacity, amount of capacity reserved by the buyer and other parameters. The buyer operates in a "built-to-order" environment and needs to decide how much capacity to reserve and from how many suppliers. For a strategy of equal allocation of capacity among the selected suppliers we develop closed form solutions and show that the model is robust to the number of suppliers from whom capacity is procured through reservation. When the parameters of demand distribution changes the supply base is likely to remain more or less the same. Our analysis further shows that increasing the number of pre-qualified suppliers does not provide significant advantages to the buyer. On the other hand, a pre-qualified supply base with greater capacity heterogeneity will benefit the buyer. (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

1-4-2009

Publisher

Elsevier Science Bv

Volume

Vol.193

Issue

Iss.1

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