Title: Implementation of defect management in a manufacturer-retailer supply chain system

Abstract:

Imperfect products are the part and parcel of almost every manufacturing industry. However, their effective management is still a big hurdle among the industry administrators. In this paper, a manufacturer-retailer supply chain scenario is explored, in which the manufacturer produces and sells the produced goods to the retailer. The retailer performs the inspection of the received lot and returns all the defectives to the manufacturer against a warranty. The manufacturer is responsible for taking care of the defectives through an extensive defect management. The defect management makes sure that the value out of defectives is fully utilized, connecting to this, the defectives are categorized through a strong inspection into different categories viz. reworkable, non-reworkable and design-flawed. The integrated problem solving approach is used to solve the model. Numerical examples and sensitivity analysis is included to demonstrate the model features.

Biography:

Prerna Gautam, is a research scholar in the Department of Operational Research, University of Delhi, India. She completed her M. Phil. (Inventory Management) in 2015, and M.Sc. (Operational Research) in 2013 from the University of Delhi. She has three book chapters and seven research papers published in Decision Science Letters, Uncertain Supply Chain Management, International Journal of Mathematical Engineering and Management Sciences, RAIRO-Operations Research, Scientia Iranica, Journal of Cleaner Production and Yugoslav Journal of Operations Research. Her area of interest is Inventory and Supply chain management.