The term ‘supply chain management’ has become common in the business world, which can be understood from the positive results of research in the area, particularly in supply chain optimization. Transportation is a frontier in achieving the objectives of the supply chain. Thrust is also given to optimization problems in transportation. The fixed-charge transportation problem is an extension of t...

We present a parametric approach for solving fixed-charge problems first sketched in Glover (1994). Our implementation is specialized to handle the most prominently occurring types of fixed-charge problems, which arise in the area of network applications. The network models treated by our method include the most general members of the network flow class, consisting of generalized networks that ...

Fixed charge solid transportation problems are formulated as profit maximization problems under a budget constraint at each destination. Here item is purchased in different depots at different prices. Accordingly the item is transported to different destinations from different depots using different vehicles. Unitsare sold from different destinations to the customers at different selling prices...

The fixed-charge capacitated multicommodity network design formulation (CMND) represents a generic model for a wide range of applications in planning the construction, development, improvement, and operation of transportation, logistics, telecommunication, and production systems (Balakrishnan, Magnanti, and Mirchandani 1997 and references therein). In these applications, multiple commodities (g...

We consider a model for a serial supply chain in which production, inventory, and transportation decisions are integrated, in the presence of production capacities and for different transportation cost functions. The model we study is a generalization of the traditional single-item economic lot-sizing model, adding stationary production capacities at the manufacturer, as well as multiple interm...

We introduce the Stochastic multistage fixed charge transportation problem in which a producer has to ship an uncertain load to a customer within a deadline. At each time period, a fixed transportation price can be paid to buy a transportation capacity. If the transportation capacity is used, the supplier also pays an uncertain unit transportation price. A unit inventory cost is charged for the...