Optimal wholesale facilities location within the fruit and vegetables supply chain with bimodal transportation options: An LP-MIP heuristic approach.
Hamideh EtemadniaStephan J. GoetzPatrick CanningMohammad Sadegh TavallaliPublished in: Eur. J. Oper. Res. (2015)
Keyphrases
- supply chain
- distribution centers
- optimal solution
- operating costs
- supply chain management
- safety stock
- uncertain demand
- feasible solution
- dynamic programming
- economic order quantity
- linear programming
- inventory policy
- lead time
- mixed integer programming
- bullwhip effect
- joint replenishment
- inventory management
- decision making
- distribution network
- inventory control
- demand points
- revenue sharing
- planning horizon
- column generation
- facility location problem
- linear program
- tabu search
- worst case
- quantity discount
- rfid technology
- supplier selection
- service level
- cost savings
- np hard
- valid inequalities
- mixed integer
- approximation algorithms
- branch and bound
- lower bound