Ganeshan, Ram; Tyworth, John E.; Guo, Yuanming - In: Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and … 35 (1999) 1, pp. 11-23
In this paper, we examine the dynamics of a supply chain that has the option of using two suppliers - one reliable, and the other unreliable. We characterize the unreliable supplier with long lead-time mean and variance. Although the use of the unreliable supplier might potentially warrant...