in any supply chain, distribution planning of products is of great importance to managers. with effective and flexible distribution planning, mangers can increase the efficiency of time, place, and delivery utility of whole supply chain. in this paper, inventory routing problem (irp) is applied to distribution planning of perishable products in a supply chain. the studied supply chain is compos...

One of the most important things in pursuit of supply chain management is to prevent sub-optimization caused by decentralized decision making over the various entities. As a solution of the issue, supply chain coordination approach has frequently been used. However, a coordinated supply chain might fail to provide additional profit to one of the players. A supply chain contract can be to achiev...

With the increasing emphasis on supply chain vulnerabilities, effective mathematical tools for analyzing and understanding appropriate supply chain risk management are now attracting much attention. This paper presents a stochastic model of the multi-stage global supply chain network problem, incorporating a set of related risks, namely, supply, demand, exchange, and disruption. We provide a ne...

Supply chain management (SCM) is a strategic paradigm to coordinate cash, material, and information flows from raw material to customer. Supply chain simulation (SCS) is a strong and popular tool for designing, evaluating, and optimizing the structure of supply chains, and it requires an important task to estimate the effect of the planning to coordinate such flows in SCM. Stochastic natures ex...

The unique and complex challenges of sustainable interplanetary travel necessitate a novel space logistics paradigm, which is hereafter referred to as the supply chain. To lay groundwork for this anticipated paradigm shift, work aims introduce principles methodologies chain (SC) planning field logistics. end, stochastic multistage mixed integer linear programming model proposed that explores vi...

The centralized management approach provides a general view to set a better coordination between the elements of the supply chain, and look for the equilibrium between the stock and the shipped quantities. This paper describes a stochastic model predictive control algorithm to optimize the warehousing cost and the shipping cost on the same time. We consider a multi-level and multi-product suppl...

The financial crisis has clearly shown the vulnerability of our global economy. New innovative tools are therefore needed to improve supply chain management thus contributing to recover from the economy slowdown. In this work we have developed a stochastic model for the automotive supply chain, dealing with uncertainty, and supporting strategic and tactical decisionmaking. This model takes into...

The need for better understanding, control, and optimization of supply chains is being recognized more than ever in the new economy. Simulation holds a great potential in portraying the dynamic evolution of supply chains and providing appropriate decision support to address challenges arising from high variability and stochastic uncertainty. Realizing high-fidelity supply chain simulation will ...

in this paper, a facility location problem of distribution systems, as one of the important and strategic issues in supply chain management, has been studied in a three-level supply chain under a stochastic condition. for this purpose, a two-stage mathematic model has been proposed for the location-allocation problem of distribution systems with regard to backup facilities for disrupting wareho...