An optimal strategy for forecasting demand in a three-echelon supply chain system via metaheuristic optimization.
B. KarthickR. UthayakumarPublished in: Soft Comput. (2023)
Keyphrases
- supply chain
- metaheuristic
- optimal strategy
- optimization problems
- lead time
- bullwhip effect
- combinatorial optimization
- inventory management
- inventory control
- tabu search
- supply chain management
- ant colony optimization
- planning horizon
- simulated annealing
- decision problems
- evolutionary algorithm
- customer demand
- safety stock
- optimal solution
- search space
- service level
- genetic algorithm
- vehicle routing problem
- expected cost
- monte carlo
- particle swarm optimization
- inventory systems
- decision making
- objective function
- inventory policy
- lot sizing
- mathematical models
- multistage
- feasible solution
- single item
- neural network
- special case
- setup cost
- knapsack problem
- single stage
- dynamic pricing
- lot size
- bayesian networks
- traveling salesman problem
- single product
- branch and bound