Incorporating location, routing and inventory decisions in supply chain network design

作者：Javid Amir Ahmadi^*; Azad Nader

来源：Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review , 2010, 46(5): 582-597.

DOI：10.1016/j.tre.2009.06.005

• Distribution network
• Integrated supply chain design
• Facility location
• Inventory control
• Vehicle routing
• Capacity level

This paper for the first time presents a novel model to simultaneously optimize location, allocation, capacity, inventory, and routing decisions in a stochastic supply chain system. Each customer's demand is uncertain and follows a normal distribution, and each distribution center maintains a certain amount of safety stock. To solve the model, first we present an exact solution method by casting the problem as a mixed integer convex program, and then we establish a heuristic method based on a hybridization of Tabu Search and Simulated Annealing. The results show that the proposed heuristic is considerably efficient and effective for a broad range of problem sizes.

• 出版日期2010-9