Match of the cross-period capacity on the third-party shared manufacturing platform with demand delay

Abstract

In this paper, we aim at the cross-period matching problem on a third-party shared manufacturing platform (TSMP) that provides matching services for capacity demanders (CDs) and capacity suppliers (CSs). Considering the impact of delay in meeting demand, we formulate a bi-level multi-objective optimization model (BMOM) with the objective functions of maximizing the manufacturers’ matching rate and the TSMP’s commission revenue, in which the lower-level model optimizes the matching strategy for the current period, and the upper-level model matches the cross-period demand (i.e., the demand with delay). Then, we propose a method that combines the ε-constraint and a three-stage solution algorithm to solve the BMOM, and the performance of the proposed method is verified by comparing it with the optimization solver CPLEX in numerical experiments. The results of numerical experiments show that the method proposed in the paper has advantages in computational effectiveness and efficiency and can solve the current-period and cross-period joint matching problem of the TSMP, which provides a reference method for TSMPs to optimize the matching strategies.