Industrial Engineering Journal ›› 2013, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (2): 53-58.

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A Novel Supply Chain Super-Network Design Model and Network Conversation Method

  

  1. 1.College of Transportation and logistics, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, China; 
    2. Department of Logistics Management, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, China
  • Online:2013-04-30 Published:2013-06-08

Abstract: The overall network design problem for supply chain has been gaining more and more attention. The realistic supply chain network is remarkably comprehensive. Such a network is of super-network scope. After analyzing the multi-layer and multi-dimension properties of such a comprehensive network, it shows that the transportation network planning and logistics time demand should be integrated into supply chain super-network design. Based on the analysis, the topology for the super-network is proposed. Then, corresponding brief network conversation methods are developed. Subsequently, the equivalent mathematic models are given. This obtained optimization model is realistic. The feasibility and effectiveness of the model are proved by numerical testing with randomly generated data.

Key words: supply chain network design, supernetwork, genetic algorithms