A comparison of allocation policies in a two-echelon repairable-item inventory model

The objective of this paper is to evaluate three allocation policies in a two-echelon machine repair model with state-dependent failure and repair rates. The first echelon consists of a number of bases that are served by a central depot in the second echelon. The operations at each base are modeled as a machine repair problem. Due to the complexity of the general model, a simulation study was conducted whereby the regenerative method of data …