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This paper discusses global optimisation from a business perspective in the context of the supply chain operations. A two-silo supply chain was built for experimentation and two approaches were used for global optimisation: a classical evolutionary approach and a cooperative coevolutionary approach. The latter approach produced higher quality solutions due to its use of communication between silos...
Globalization has prompted manufacturing firms to come to terms with environmental legislation and regulations, resulting in the manufacturing industry realizing the importance of adopting environmental friendly supply chain management (SCM) practices. A growing number of companies have realized that attaining effective SCM is only one side of the coin. The other side is to make SCM environmentally...
In view of the problem on the optimal theory of three parallel activities adjusted to sequencing activities, the existing references only have done some theoretical researches, and produced the optimal method regarding the special problems. All possible results that three parallel activities are adjusted to sequencing activities are studied. Some new concepts and new theories are true through proof...
Research regarding supply chain optimization has been performed for a long time. However, it's only in the last decade that the research community has started to investigate multi-objective optimization for supply chains. Supply chains are in general complex networks composed of autonomous entities whereby multiple performance measures in different levels, which in most cases are in conflict with...
In this paper, we propose a coordinated single-vendor multi-buyer supply chain model by synchronizing delivery and production cycles with trade credit option. The synchronization is achieved by scheduling the actual delivery days of the buyers and coordinating it with the vendor's production cycle. It can be shown that the synchronized cycles policy works better, in terms of total system costs, than...
This paper describes a simulation model of a multiechelon inventory cost optimization problem using Arena. The problem to minimize the total inventory cost throughout the system while satisfying end-customer service-level requirements is analyzed in detail by the simulation. There are three retailers, a distribution center and a manufacturer in the multi-echelon inventory system. Each member follows...
With the economic crisis background, the maintenance function has evolved from being centered on short term questions such as the use of resources and allocation of costs to strategic considerations such as asset profit enhancement and fast response to the market demand. In this paper, our objective is to jointly optimize the maintenance of a capacity-constrained node, it's feed node and inlet buffer...
With the development of e-technology and Internet, information technology is introduced to commercial activities as a tool, which creates a new business operation e-commerce. Meanwhile, Chinese entrepreneurs have gradually realized that there is no doubt that competition among the enterprises is becoming the competition among their supply chains under the economic globalization in 21st century. The...
The optimization of supply chain distribution network need to consider many factors, especially useful information derived from distributors. In this paper, We consider a supply chain consisting of two layers, they are one manufacture and many distributors. Each distributor has full knowledge about his own value-added cost structure. The problem is to design the optimal distribution network for the...
Supply chain alliance has become a new form of organization and cooperation in enterprise led by alliance idea of "Growth externalization, control internalization", but there is much risk in the alliance because of "sole win" subconsciousness of many alliance enterprises. The alliance enterprises must give different degrees of attention to other alliance enterprises in order to...
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