An optimization based decision support model for Thai rubber industry supply chain: Preliminary results

Author

Chanchaichujit, Janya ; Quaddus, Mohammed ; West, Michael ; Saavedra-Rosas, Jose

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Bus., Curtin Univ., Perth, WA, Australia

fYear

2012

fDate

10-13 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

1488

Lastpage

1492

Abstract

As today´s global rubber markets continue to be more complex in term of cost, the objective to design effective rubber supply chain needs to address this challenge. Therefore, this paper aims to develop an optimization based decision support model for the Thai rubber industry formulated by incorporating the distribution, production and transportation of rubber products in a manner to minimize the total costs. The purpose of the model is to support the analysis of rubber supply network flows, the factory locations, the outbound distribution of transportation mode and route choices. Preliminary results based on cost minimization objective are presented and discussed.

Keywords

cost reduction; decision support systems; goods distribution; optimisation; production engineering computing; rubber products; supply chains; Thai rubber industry supply chain; factory locations; optimization based decision support model; route choices; rubber products distribution; rubber products production; rubber products transportation; rubber supply network flows; total cost minimization; transportation mode outbound distribution; Production facilities; Rails; Rubber; Rubber industry; Rubber products; Supply chains; Transportation; Optimization model; Supply chain; Thai rubber industry;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hong Kong

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEEM.2012.6837994

Filename

6837994