Empty Containers Inventory System with Fuzzy Demand

Abstract

In this research, with the trend of globalization; trade inequality leads to differences in the throughput of ports. Ports with large number of export goods will face the problem of the lacking of containers. In the model, the cost of dispatching containers is divided into three parts: container holding cost, container ordering cost and container leasing cost. According to the status of inventory level, cost can be effectively reduced according to which method is used to dispatch the container. Due to the reason of demand for each period cannot be accurately predicted, therefore fuzzy theory is added in the research in order to obtain a more realistic and accurate result. Finally, this research cooperates Matlab R2014b in calculating the result for the hypothesis model.