Patent ID: 8112297

Claim:
A dual-warehouse management system for a supply chain, wherein the supply chain comprises a manufacturer and a distributor, the manufacturer delivers a product lot of a deteriorating item to the distributor, and the distributor manages a primary distribution warehouse and a secondary distribution warehouse and stores the product lot in the primary distribution warehouse, and stores remained product lot in the secondary distribution warehouse when the primary distribution warehouse reaches a maximum capacity, and the dual-warehouse management system for a supply chain comprising: a storage device, storing a plurality of programs written based on a computer programming language; and a central processing unit, executing the programs; wherein the programs comprising: a manufacturer function module, estimating a total cost of the manufacturer according to a manufacturing inventory level, a manufacturing deteriorating cost and a delivery times of the deteriorating item for the manufacturer; a distributor function module, estimating a total cost of the distributor according to a respective distributing inventory level, a respective distributing deteriorating cost of the deteriorating item for the primary distribution warehouse and the secondary distribution warehouse, the delivering frequency, and shortage cost; and a joint cost optimization module, calculating a minimum of a joint cost obtained by adding the manufacturer's total cost and the distributor's total cost, so as to obtain the product lot and the delivery times of the deteriorating item to be delivered from the manufacturer to the distributor in a planning time horizon, wherein the joint cost optimization module compares the joint costs with the delivery times of n, n+1 and n−1, and when the joint cost with the delivery times of n is less than or equal to the joint cost with the delivery times of n+1, and meanwhile when the joint cost with the delivery times of n is also less than or equal to the joint cost with the delivery times of n−1, the joint cost with the delivery times of n is determined to be the minimum.