期刊名称:JOURNAL OF OPTIMIZATION IN INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING (JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING)
印刷版ISSN:2251-9904
出版年度:2015
卷号:8
期号:18
页码:71-78
语种:English
出版社:ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY, QAZVIN BRANCH
摘要:There are many benefits for coordination of multiple suppliers when single supplier cannot satisfy buyer demands. In addition, buyer needs to purchase multiple items in a real supply chain. So, a model that satisfies these requests has many advantages. We extend the existing approaches in the literature that assume all suppliers need to be put on a common replenishment cycle and each supplier delivers exactly once in a cycle. More specifically, inspired by approaches that perform well for the Economic Lot Scheduling Problem, we assume an integer number of times a supplier can ship available items in an overall replenishment cycle. Because of complexity issue, a new approach based on genetic algorithm is employed to solve the presented model. Results depict that new model is more beneficial and practical.