Abstract
In the last three decades, an integrated approach to optimize logistics system is considered as one of the most important aspects of optimizing supply chain management. This approach involves the ties between locations of facility, allocation of suppliers/customers, structure of transportation routes and inventory control. The aim of this paper is to investigate the ordering planning of a supply chain with multi supplier, multi distribution center, multi customer and one perishable raw material. This paper provides a mathematical model taking in consideration the limitation of raw material corruptibility (perishable material) which belongs to the category of NP-hard problems. To solve the proposed model, the Ant Colony Optimization algorithm (ACO) and Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm (PSO) are employed. In order to improve performances of ACO and PSO parameters, a Taguchi experimental design method was applied to set their proper values. Besides, to evaluate the performance of the proposed model, an example of the dairy industry is analyzed by using MATLAB R 2015a. To validate the proposed meta-heuristic algorithms, the results of them were compared with together. The results of the comparison show that ACO is greater than PSO in speed convergence rate and the number of solutions iterations.
Highlights
In many logistics environments, decisions should be taken by managers such as locating of distribution centers, allocation of customers to the transportation centers and programing for transportation to provide services for customers
As is shown in this figure, in convergence metric, the results of the performance measures show that the ant colony optimization (ACO) has better convergence compared to the Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm (PSO)
This paper provided a mathematical model taking in consideration the limitation on raw material corruptibility's
Summary
Decisions should be taken by managers such as locating of distribution centers, allocation of customers to the transportation centers and programing for transportation to provide services for customers. Defining the optimal number and location of distribution centers (warehouses) as well as the schedule of vehicles and distribution routes affect to minimize the total cost of the system. Since many customers can use the same route, it increases the likelihood that its demand will exceed the capacity of the network. Based on the description provided above, this study presents a new mathematical model taking in consideration the limitation of raw material corruptibility (perishable material) which belongs to the category of NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems.
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