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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2024, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (2): 54-64.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2021.0339

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A risk-Averse Inventory Decision-making Model with Quality Incompleteness

Jie Chen1,Lingbo Xing1(),Weisheng Li1,Zhixiang Chen2,Chongping Chen3   

  1. 1.School of Science, Hainan Tropical Ocean University, Sanya 572022, China
    2.School of Business, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
    3.School of Politics and Public Administration, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510006, China
  • Received:2021-02-22 Revised:2022-04-22 Online:2024-02-25 Published:2024-03-06
  • Contact: Lingbo Xing E-mail:qzuxinglingbo@163.com

Abstract:

Quality uncertainty is one of the most important risk sources of the inventory system, which has a negative correlation with the supply capacity on the supply side. Meanwhile, the corresponding linkage effect induced by the quality uncertainty has a disturbing effect on the decision-making behavior of the inventory system, and then affects the risk preference of decision-makers. Therefore, based on the uncertainty of supply capacity, purchase price, wholesale price, residual value and other factors caused by quality imperfection, an inventory decision model with risk aversion under imperfect quality is proposed by Markov process. According to the results of the new model and numerical simulation, the following important conclusions and management implications can be drawn:Firstly, the effect of quality level and supply capacity on optimal expected order quantity and expected profit of inventory system has consistent attribute, that is, the effect of quality level and supply capacity on both have a positive correlation. When the quality level and supply capacity are in the optimal state, the optimal expected order quantity and expected profit reach the optimal value, otherwise vice versa. In addition, if the quality process{Zk} meets ergodicity and irreducibility, the inventory system has a good robustness, and the decision maker can obtain relatively stable expected profits as long as he takes a robust ordering strategy.Secondly, under the multiple random decision environment which is formed by the quality level, supply ability, pleased, wholesale price, the salvage value and demand, the transmission mechanism of risk aversion factor has an invariance property to the decision making mechanism, that is, the attribute of relationships (positive correlation) between risk aversion factor η and optimal expected order quantity and expected profit is not affected by exogenous random factors. This further verifies an important conclusion in behavioral science, that is, in different decision-making environments, the higher the degree of risk aversion of decision makers, the more conservative they will adopt strategies.Thirdly, the relevant conclusion shows that the post-decision information set has certain advantages which is derived from incorporating Markov process into the theoretical framework of the classic risk-averse newsboy model, that is, based on the statistical regularity of Markov process, the traditional post-decision information can be extended from two dimensions to five, and then enrich the ideological connotation of the post-decision information set, to describe the movement mechanism for the optimal expected order quantity, expected profit, order quantity robustness, expected profit stability, return expected profit and other elements of the inventory system. Obviously, Multi- dimensionalization of post-decision information set is more conducive to revealing the statistical structure of stochastic inventory system and perfecting the evaluation mechanism of reliability and performance of inventory system.

Key words: imperfect quality, Markov chain, CVaR criterion, inventory decision

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