Tactical Inventory Management in Production-Inventory Systems via An Adaptive Model-Free Control Scheme

This paper examines the application of model-free control as introduced by Fliess and Join, to tactical inventory control in a supply chain system. The presence of the unavoidable delay which is inherent to such system requires a compensation action. Here, the delay compensation is achieved via a forecasting method stemming from the new advances of time series. The conducted simulations and comparative studies of a real industrial example show improved performance, greater flexibility, and higher functionality of the proposed framework even in the presence of various disturbances and sever constraints.