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        1 - Determination of Material Flows in a Multi-echelon Assembly SupplyChain
        Mehrnoosh Taherkhani Mehdi Seifbarghy
        This study aims to minimize the total cost of a four-echelon supply chain including suppliers, an assembler, distributers, and retailers. Thetotal cost consists of purchasing raw materials from the suppliers by the assembler, assembling the final product, materials tran أکثر
        This study aims to minimize the total cost of a four-echelon supply chain including suppliers, an assembler, distributers, and retailers. Thetotal cost consists of purchasing raw materials from the suppliers by the assembler, assembling the final product, materials transportationfrom the suppliers to the assembler, product transportation from the assembler to the distributors, product transportation from thedistributors to the retailers, and product holding and stock-out in the distribution centers. To this end, having modeled the problemaddressed, a numerical example including ten suppliers, an assembler, three distributors and eight retailers in the chain is solved for fourperiods of time. Then the model is solved by a simulated annealing-based heuristic and LINGO. Finally, a set of 30 numerical problems ofsmall and large sizes are developed and solved. The results indicate that simulated annealing-based heuristic provides near optimalsolutions. تفاصيل المقالة
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        2 - Bi-product inventory planning in a three-echelon supply chain with backordering, Poisson demand, and limited warehouse space
        Maryam Alimardani Fariborz Jolai Hamed Rafiei
        In this paper, we apply continuous review (S-1, S) policy for inventory control in a three-echelon supply chain (SC) including r identical retailers, a central warehouse with limited storage space, and two independent manufacturing plants which offer two kinds of prod أکثر
        In this paper, we apply continuous review (S-1, S) policy for inventory control in a three-echelon supply chain (SC) including r identical retailers, a central warehouse with limited storage space, and two independent manufacturing plants which offer two kinds of product to the customer. The warehouse of the model follows (M/M/1) queue model where customer demands follow a Poisson probability distribution function, and customer serving time is exponential random variable. To evaluate the effect of considering bi-product developed model, solution of the developed model is compared with that of the two (M/M/1) queue models which are separately developed for each product. Moreover, and in order to cope with the computational complexity of the developed model, a particle swarm optimization algorithm is adopted. Through the conducted numerical experiments, it is shown that total profit of the SC is significantly enhanced using the developed model. تفاصيل المقالة