Service-oriented inventory control model for supply chain management

Uncertainties inherent in customer demands make it difficult for supply chains to achieve JIT inventory replenishment, resulting in loosing sales opportunities or keeping excessive chain-wide inventories. In this paper, we propose a inventory-control model for a supply chain through using a reinforcement learning technique, the control parameters are designed to change as customer demand patterns changes, A simulation-based experiment was performed to investigate the performance of the inventory control model.