Engineering and Applied Sciences

Volume 10, Issue 3, June 2025

  • Research Article

    Inventory Calculation for an Item Supplied by Three Providers with Stochastic Lead Times

    Juan Manuel Izar Landeta*, Jose Adrian Najera Saldaña, Lizbeth Angelica Zarate Camacho

    Issue: Volume 10, Issue 3, June 2025
    Pages: 27-37
    Received: 16 April 2025
    Accepted: 27 April 2025
    Published: 29 May 2025
    DOI: 10.11648/j.eas.20251003.11
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    Abstract: This study aims to answer whether the policy of a business that is supplied by 3 different providers and with random patterns of their lead times is optimal or should be modified. The lead times are normal, the first one, uniform the second one and exponential the third. The three lead times have the same average value of eight days, with the objec... Show More