期刊名称：JOURNAL OF OPTIMIZATION IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING (JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING)
印刷版ISSN：2251-9904
出版年度：2010
卷号：3
期号：6
页码：63-72
语种：English
出版社：ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY, QAZVIN BRANCH
摘要：This paper studies the multi-stage supply chain system (MSSCM) controlled by the kanban mechanism. In the kanban system, decision making is based on the number of kanbans as well as batch sizes. A kanban mechanism is employed to assist in linking different production processes in a supply chain system in order to implement the scope of just-in-time (JIT) philosophy. For a MSSCM, a mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problem is formulated from the perspective of JIT delivery policy where a kanban may reflect to a transporter. Since the adopted model is of MINLP type and solving it by branch and bound (B&B) takes time, a metaheuristic is presented.This metaheuristic is an electromagnetic algorithm (EA). The EA is compared against an existing algorithm and also B&B results to evaluate the proposed metaheuristic. Extensive experiments and statistical analyses demonstrate that our proposed EM is more efficient than B&B with regard to the objective functions considered in this paper.
