Science and Technology Production
Article
Authorship
COCCOLA, MARIANA EVANGELINA
;
Zamarripa, Miguel
;
MENDEZ, CARLOS ALBERTO
;
Espuña, Antonio
Date
2013
Publishing House and Editing Place
Elsevier
Magazine
COMPUTERS AND CHEMICAL ENGINEERING,
vol. 57
(pp. 78-94)
Elsevier
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The effective management of multi-site systems involves the proper coordination of activities performed in multiple factories, distribution centers (DCs), retailers and end-users located in many different cities, countries and/or continents. To optimally manage numerous production and transportation decisions, a novel monolithic continuous-time MILP-based framework is developed to determine the best short-term operational planning to meet all customer requests at minimum total cost. The formula...
The effective management of multi-site systems involves the proper coordination of activities performed in multiple factories, distribution centers (DCs), retailers and end-users located in many different cities, countries and/or continents. To optimally manage numerous production and transportation decisions, a novel monolithic continuous-time MILP-based framework is developed to determine the best short-term operational planning to meet all customer requests at minimum total cost. The formulation lies on the unit-specific general precedence concept for the production scheduling problem whereas the immediate precedence notion is used for transportation decisions. To illustrate the applicability and potential benefits of the model, a challenging example corresponding to a supply chain comprising several locations geographically spread in six European countries has been solved to optimality with modest CPU times. Several scenarios with different logistics features were addressed in order to remark the significant advantages of using the integrated approach.
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Key Words
LogisticsMulti-site SystemProduction and Distribution SchedulingMILP-based approach
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