A Robust Inventory Management Approach to Environmental Changes in the Leasing Industry:

Capacity Constraints and Moving Costs

Abstract

The reuse of products and materials has been attracting attention as one of the efforts to shift to a sustainable society. One of the ways to reuse products is to lease them, and the demand for leasing is increasing as a means to make effective use of resources. In the leasing industry, the number of inventories at each site depends on the experience and intuition of the person in charge, and if the number of inventories is too large, the storage cost of the inventories increases.

Therefore, this study aims to determine inventory management methods that can respond to demand fluctuations and reduce costs by using demand data and inventory movement histories obtained in the field.