Replenishment triggered by product to eliminate the expiry problem

摘要

Increasing competition between industrial companies obliges these last to improve their piloting systems, more precisely the reactivity and flexibility of supply chains. Among the most delicate problems: The products expiry. What is very existing in the hospital and pharmaceutical field. In this paper, one will treat the chemical products expiry in the aeronautical field. Which knows a great competition from where the need for a proactive replenishment management. To achieve this goal, we propose a replenishment started by product by the use of product driven system concept. Being smart, the product will determine the good moment of replenishment, the quantity and the minimal expiry date. By this solution the companies can eliminate the stock out rates and the product expiry, which improves the supply chain performance.