Bi Objective Integrated Supply Chain Network Design Under Supply And Demand Uncertainties

Download or read book Bi-Objective Integrated Supply Chain Network Design Under Supply and Demand Uncertainties written by Boyi Wu and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A supply chain has a network structure and its design involves production-distributiondecisions on the location of production, distribution facilities, capacities andtransportation quantities. A multi-echelon supply chain involving multiple suppliers andmultiple retailers for multiple products among multiple periods is considered in this thesis,which is required to be modeled as a multi-objective problem coping with uncertaintiesduring the process. The uncertainties considered in this thesis include demanduncertainties and suppliers disruptions. The end retailers demand is assumed to beuncertain following a certain distribution. Suppliers disruptions are represented by a setof discrete scenarios with given probabilities of occurrence of shrink in storage capacity,which can cause insufficient supplies from suppliers. Hence, the model in this thesis isdifferent from traditional supply chain network models under a deterministic case or themodels with uncertainties in demand only.In order to study the effects of the various uncertainties involved in the chain on theoptimal decisions, multiple methods are tested using a multi-objective mixed-integernonlinear model. After comparison of computational performance, the min-max methodis applied to obtain detailed mathematical solution. Numerical examples are conducted toillustrate the developed model with scenario analysis and sensitivity analysis is alsoconducted.