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CHAPTER I: THE WAREHOUSE

1.4.3 STOCK COSTS

The stock costs are constituted give: - financial burdens (or cost opportunity) on the invested them understood one in the supplyes; - costs of obsolescence and physical deterioration; - costs of warehousing and manipulation; - burdens insured to you. In the maintenance costs we consider only those proportional them to Q, therefore expenses does not generate them of warehouse (lighting system, movementation, administration, etc). The formula of the costs stock can therefore be expressed:


(unit cost of stock or value of the medium supply)

In which we indicate with:

  • m = unitary annual cost of stock (every cost for euro of goods or material lying in warehouse;
  • P = unit price of reported purchase to every physical unit of goods or material (price that is assumed does not vary to changing of the entity of the order);
  •  = medium supply
In the following diagram the curve of the annual cost of stock is represented.
Figure n.1.5 - Course of the stock costs

This has an increasing course since is formed essentially from variable costs: their amount total grows to increasing of the supplyes. Therefore to increasing of a need, they increase the amounts that come ordered (grow the medium supply).
The function


deriving from the sum of the two sopraindicate functions it has its minimum in correspondence of the point in which the respective curves are met. Therefore the abscissa of such point will be found in correspondence of the Qx value.
Point in which the verification that y1 = y2.
With simple passages matemati to us (multiplying both the members for 2Qx and place the Qx tie > 0) is had:
It turns out therefore to be that:

Figure n.1.6 - economic Lottery of purchase

It can be noticed that the economic lottery grows to growing of the costs of order and the requirementses of supplying.
It is reduced, instead, to increasing of the cost of capital them.
Moreover to doubling itself of the requirementses of supplying (f) the economic lottery grows for an equal coefficient to  .
The same coefficient expresses the increase of the medium supply (Fehler!) and therefore of the maintenance costs, to demonstration of the existence of economies of scale in the operating costs of the supplyes.
They are found but some limits to the application of the formula of the economic lottery which concurs to optimize the operating costs of the supplyes give you to the relative parameters you to the price, to the costs of order, the cost of capital them, to the requirementses of supplying, in the presupposed one that these parameters remain constant to varying of the purchase lottery.
In truth, the value of these parameters can be modified in function of the acquired amount; it is the case of the purchase price, that it can be discounted in case of important lotteries; or of the shipping charges (comprised in the order costs), that they can grow if the purchase lottery exceeds one sure threshold.
In such case, the model of the economic lottery is not sufficient, alone, to giving solution to the dilemma of supplying. Sovente, because of the high dimension of the lottery of purchase or a reduced ability to delivery of the supplier, the refueling to the warehouses is not immediate but progressive.
In such case, the model of the economic lottery goes "fixed" because the medium supply will not be equaler to Fehler! , but to:
Medium Supply = Fehler!o Fehler!
where r it is the rate refueling (for time unit) and p is the rate withdrawal of money from the warehouse (for time unit).
The economic lottery becomes then:


Draft of a advanced value to that one in case of immediate refueling. In fact, in successive case of refueling progressive (see fig.), a part of the maintenance costs goes proportionally to weigh on the supplier (to the time of refueling), with obvious benefit for the purchaser.
Figure n.1.7 - progressive Refueling of the warehouses

In relation to the formula of the economic lottery of purchase:
to parity of requirementses (F), of unit costs of order and maintenance, assuming to adopt the model of the economic lottery of refueling, he is more convenient for an enterprise to resort to the refueling graduates them rather than to that immediate one. That is worth is for the maintenance costs that for the order costs. The refueling graduates them is then more convenient for the purchaser.
Very to see, in fact, the refueling graduates leads them the enterprise towards the JIT.


Figure n.1.8 - the management of the supplyes in atmosphere JIT

The situation limit is that one in which the rate refueling (r) he is little advanced or quite equal to the withdrawal of money rate (p). In such case, the materials that flow to the warehouse come immediately capture to you for being employ to you in the production. The supplyes stretch therefore to value ' zero '. Two modalities exist then in order to catch up the JIT and supplyes zero:

  1. to reduce to 1 unit (or however to levels many bottoms) the purchase lottery, through the cost reduction of order;
  2. to realize, whichever is the purchase lottery, a refueling graduates them synchronized with the withdrawals of money (r = p).

Figure n. 1,9 - progressive Refueling of the warehouses with rate little advanced refueling to the rate withdrawal of money (JIT)

In its theoretical version, the model of the economic lottery is a model of management of the supplyes to "fixed amount and fixed time".
It in fact concurs to determine the amount to acquire and the number of refueling to carry out.
Dividend a period considered for the refueling number it is therefore possible to determine the interval of time elapsing between a refueling and that successive one. In absence of variability in the rates withdrawal of money (p) and the times of delivery (it is immediate it or it graduates them), the warehouse will assume the classic course ' to comb '.


Figure n.1.10 - Typical course to comb of the warehouse

In truth, the withdrawal of money rates can be famous in their medium dimension but to assume variable and unforeseeable values, in relation to the variability ' to go them ', that is in the rhythms of production and/or the question of market.
It can therefore happen that the warehouse is get exaustedded before or after the previewed one.
If the supplier has the flexibility necessary to react ready to the demands for the purchaser, not there will be problems for this last one.
The management of the supplyes will that is follow a model "to fixed amount and variable time".


Figure n.1.11 - Course to "irregular comb"

The course of the warehouse then will be represented from a ' comb' irregular one, with more driven in teeth hour (rates than withdrawal of money it elevates) hour more radii to you (reduced rates than withdrawal of money).
Often, but, the supplier does not have the ability to react immediately to the orders of the purchaser. It can that is have need of a period of time (cd. lead-Time of refueling) for 'prepare' the lottery of refueling for the successive delivery (that he could gradually then be made in only solution or).
Every purchase order goes then 'launch' with an equal advance payment to the lead-Time of refueling regarding the moment in which the delivery will have to happen, that is at the moment of the previewed exhaustion of the warehouse.
A delayed delivery would involve one undesirable situation of ' under supply'; an anticipated delivery would involve instead an uneconomical esubero of materials to supply.
The enterprise purchaser must therefore, holding account of the rates withdrawal of money from the warehouse, to estimate the moment in which the warehouse it will be get exaustedded, for being therefore in a position to launch a purchase order with an equal advance payment to the lead-Time of the supplier.
Of usual, the moment of the launch of the order comes identified with the attainment in warehouse of cd. the level of reorders.
Draft of the amount of materials necessary in order to that is guarantee the continuity of the withdrawals of money during the lead-Time (until the successive delivery).
Level of I reorder = rate withdrawal of money (p) * lead-Time + emergency supplyes

Figure n.1.12 - the management of the supplyes to economic lottery and level of I reorder.
hypothesis to) variability of the withdrawal of money rate

hypothesis b) variability of lead the Time

The rate withdrawal of money (p) taken to reference for the determination of the level of I reorder is of usual an estimated medium value on the base of the historical rates withdrawal of money.
The same time of delivery (lead-Time) is an only indicative and susceptible value often of changes (ritardi/anticipi) when the logistic reliability of the supplier is not total.
A management of the supplyes to level of I reorder cannot therefore eliminate of the all problem of the uncertainty. Having to anticipate the purchase order the buying enterprise is found in fact exposed to the risk of unexpected changes in the rates withdrawal of money and the times of delivery (lead-Time).
In order to avoid a "breach of the stock", that is the undesired and anticipated exhaustion of the supplyes, the purchaser then will be forced to stop of the supplyes in esubero. These exceeding supplyes the normal requirements ' medie' of the enterprise are said "emergency supplyes" and have the function to avoid undesired situations of "sottoscorta", with the relati to you dangers of interruption of the production process and/or of lacked sales.
Their entity is proportional them to the degree of uncertainty inborn in the rates withdrawal of money and the duration of the lead-Time and to the intentional degree of emergency (level of service).
In the hypothesis that effective rate withdrawal of money and lead-Time second distribute around their medium value a Gaussian distribution, the optimal level of emergency supplyes is determinable through this expression:
supplyes of security(SS) =
where:

  • with  it comes indicated the deviance standard of the rate withdrawal of money in a time unit;
  • with  it comes indicated the deviance standard of the lead-Time.
If a level of service of 100% is wanted to be assured, then the emergency supplyes will have to be equal to:
SSmax = pmax or LTmax
In case only the rate withdrawal of money or the lead-Time is subject to uncertainty, the formula is transformed, respective, in:

In the attempt to reduce the shipping charges, purchaser and supplier they can find convenient to pass from modality of refueling to fixed amount (economic lottery) to refueling modality to fixed time, where the parts establish in advance payment the moment of the delivery of the materials, fixing it, as an example, in coincidence of their periodic "turns supplying customers" or "turns". The amount, that it will come specified with a sure advance payment regarding the delivery (that we will be able, for comfort, to indicate with the lead-Time term), will have to guarantee the regolaritą of the withdrawals of money during all the interval of time between a refueling and the successive one. Famous the medium rate withdrawal of money for time unit, we can indicate with the term "level of reintegro" the amount of materials that will have to be present in warehouse to the beginning of every interval in order to assure one medium cover of the withdrawal of money necessities:
level of reintegro (L. RE.) = p o T + SS
where p it is the medium rate withdrawal of money for unit of time and T is the number of unit of time between a refueling and that successive one.
A supplying amount must be defined with an equal advance payment to the lead-Time regarding the moment of the delivery, and therefore will be determined: tidy amount = L.RE. - amount estimated in warehouse at the moment of the refueling where:
amount estimated in warehouse at the moment of the refueling = amount in warehouse at the moment of the launch of the order - withdrawal of money previewed during the lead-Time.
Figure n.1.13 - Method of management of the supplyes to fixed time.

Obvious that the tidy amount can only accidentally coincide with the economic lottery of purchase.
For how much it concerns, instead, the determination of the level of the emergency supplyes, is necessary to consider that the bind order the purchaser for an equal period to (lead-Time + T).
Il meant of refueling lead-Time is various here that in the refueling to fixed amount: draft simply of the time of warning with which the purchaser informs the supplier of the amounts to deliver. It can be be a matter of considerably inferior interval also to that one demanded from the supplier in order to prepare the delivery to variable time.
We can moreover think that fixing the time of the refueling in advance payment greater puntualitą of delivery can be counted on one (hypothesis: absence of variability of the LT).
The formula for the determination of the optimal level of emergency supplyes is following:


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