关键词: 分布式库存系统, 调拨, 虚拟协调中心, 集中控制, 仿真, 供应链管理

Abstract: To solve the inventory control problems in inventory system,transshipment strategy was applied to a secondary supply chain system. By setting up the virtual co-ordination center, core concepts such as centralized control and decentralized management were defined in order to conduct centralized management for distributed inventory information and realize integrated management system. Furthermore, a powerful modeling tool named Anylogic was adopted to simulate several strategies to avoid the mathematical complexity and uncontrollability of analytic method. Compared cost and the customer service level of these strategies, the results showed that transshipment was good for the inventory management system and partial pooling was optimal whenever transshipment occurred.

Key words: distributed inventory management, transshipment, virtual coordination center, centralized control, simulation, supply chains