Determining the Pareto set in a bicriteria two-echelon inventory/distribution system

作者：Gutierrez J^*; Puerto J; Sicilia J

来源：Optimization, 2010, 59(2): 253-271.

DOI：10.1080/02331930701764031

• Pareto set
• two-echelon inventory
• distribution system
• level curves
• warehouse

This article concerns two-echelon inventory/distribution system, consisting of a warehouse and a retailer. We assume that the demand is deterministic and stockouts are not permitted. Two criteria are considered: to minimize the annual inventory cost and the annual total number of damaged items by improper shipment handling. The problem consists of determining the non-dominated inventory policies in such a way that the trade-off between both criteria is achieved. We present the characterization of the non-dominated optimal solution set and we use this result to correct the solution method previously proposed by other authors for a problem with identical cost structure. An efficient algorithm to calculate the non-dominated solution set is introduced. Computational results on several randomly generated problems are reported.

• 出版日期2010