Forward supply Chain network design problem: Heuristic approaches
Abstract
Determining positions and counting of actors,
amount of product flow between and decreasing transportation costs are handled
as a network design problem in supply chain management. Supply chain network
design (SCND) problem belongs to the class of NP-hard problems. It has
therefore appealed to a number of researchers’ close attention. However,
existing literature lacks of common benchmark instances for forward SCND
problems so as to make a fair comparison between developed and applied
heuristic approaches. To this end, 450 new benchmark instances ranging from
small to large size for forward SCND problems with two, three and four-echelon
are generated and a mathematical model for each of the problems is formulated.
Due to the complexity issues, we develop two heuristic solution approaches,
genetic algorithm (GA) and hybrid heuristic algorithm (HHA), and we apply them
to the large pool of benchmark instances. Comparative experiments show that
both the GA and HHA can yield feasible solutions in much less computational
time and, in particular, outperforms CPLEX regarding the solution quality as
the number of echelon grows.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Engineering
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Publication Date
August 17, 2018
Submission Date
November 28, 2017
Acceptance Date
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Published in Issue
Year 2018 Volume: 24 Number: 4