Optimizing a vendor managed inventory (VMI) supply chain for perishable products by considering discount: Two calibrated meta-heuristic algorithms.
Maryam Akbari KaasgariDin Mohammad ImaniMehdi MahmoodjanlooPublished in: Comput. Ind. Eng. (2017)
Keyphrases
- supply chain
- vendor managed inventory
- metaheuristic
- lead time
- optimization problems
- supply chain management
- joint replenishment
- inventory control
- bullwhip effect
- uncertain demand
- combinatorial optimization
- upper bound
- customer demand
- decision making
- search space
- inventory management
- supplier selection
- operating costs
- genetic algorithm
- optimal solution