%0 Journal Article %T An Integrated Model for a Two-supplier Supply Chain with Uncertainty in the Supply %J Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering %I Iranian Institute of Industrial Engineering %Z 1735-8272 %A Sajadifar, Mehdi %A Pourghannad, Behrooz %D 2011 %\ 10/01/2011 %V 5 %N 3 %P 154-174 %! An Integrated Model for a Two-supplier Supply Chain with Uncertainty in the Supply %K Supply chain management %K Unreliable Supply %K Continuous Review Policy %K Poisson Demand %K Non-Zero Lead-time %R %X The objective of this paper is to study an integrated two-supplier supply chain whose suppliers are unreliable. An unreliable supplier is alternative between available (ON) and unavailable (OFF) states which are considered to be independent exponential variables. The suppliers apply a continuous review policy and the retailer uses an adapted continuous review base on an(R,Q) policy. Transportation times are constant and lead times are non-zero random variables. The retailer faces independent Poisson demands. Using the idea of the one-for-one ordering policy, we implicitly incorporate the distribution function of the random delay for obtaining the value of the expected costs of system. Finally, resorting to a dozen of sample problems, we show that the average cost reduction in our inventory system is at least 3.69% and at most 36.95% comparing to the one with only one supplier. %U https://www.jise.ir/article_4048_34281b5ba5fba63949c2d21fdc8552c8.pdf