Optimizing a vendor managed inventory (VMI) model considering delivering cost in a three-echelon supply chain using two tuned-parameter meta-heuristics.
Javad SadeghiMahziar TaghizadehAhamd SadeghiReza JahangardReza Tavakkoli-MoghaddamPublished in: Int. J. Syst. Assur. Eng. Manag. (2015)
Keyphrases
- supply chain
- vendor managed inventory
- economic order quantity
- customer demand
- supply chain management
- metaheuristic
- stackelberg game
- cost savings
- replenishment policy
- lead time
- inventory control
- market demand
- inventory management
- product life cycle
- multistage
- simulated annealing
- supplier selection
- inventory policy
- neural network
- expected cost
- bullwhip effect
- evolutionary algorithm
- quantity discount
- decision making