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Integrated inventory-transportation model by synchronizing delivery and production cycles.
- Source :
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Transportation Research Part E: Logistics & Transportation Review . Jul2016, Vol. 91, p68-89. 22p. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- This paper develops an integrated single-vendor multi-buyer inventory-transportation synchronized supply chain model. In this paper, the decisions of truck assignment and routing are also considered and as a result, a series of vehicle routing problems (VRP) are required to be solved. Due to the highly complicated objective function and the NP -hard VRP problems, the problem cannot be solved analytically. Hence, meta-heuristics are proposed. By means of the numerical examples and a case study, the meta-heuristics developed are shown to be very effective in solving such comprehensive supply chain models, and the results so obtained are promising. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13665545
- Volume :
- 91
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Transportation Research Part E: Logistics & Transportation Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 115802594
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2016.03.017