Supply chain planning at Philips Lighting Lumileds: A design and implementation of a stock control model to balance customer service and stock levels in an end to end environment to improve product availability.

Improving service level at the lowest possible costs is and will always be one of the key objectives of Philips Electronics. This research illustrates how a part of the Philips supply chain control is setup /designed to support this objective. Within Philips, the business unit called Lumileds supplies LED’s to its customers. One of the...