Title :
Joint economic production allocation and delivery policies in multi-plants with capacity
Author :
Zang, Jie ; Tang, Jiafu
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Eng., Northeastern Univ., Shenyang
Abstract :
In the manufacturing environment, production activities and distribution should be coordinated effectively to enhance its profit in today´s competitive market. An integrated decision on production assignment and delivery polices for a single manufacturer with multi-plants which are capacitated and a single retailer is discussed in this paper. A mathematical programming model is presented to determine the production cycle, delivery frequency and the economic production allocation that minimize the average total cost. An assignment heuristic is designed to solve the near-optimal production allocation ratios. An example is demonstrated and discussed.
Keywords :
cost reduction; environmental management; goods distribution; industrial economics; industrial plants; mathematical programming; optimised production technology; profitability; competitive market; delivery frequency; joint economic production allocation; manufacturing environment; mathematical programming model; near-optimal production allocation ratios; product delivery policies; production assignment; production cycle; retailer; Heuristics; multi-plants with capacity; production and delivery coordination; supply chain management;
Conference_Titel :
Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, 2008. IEEE/SOLI 2008. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2012-4
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2013-1
DOI :
10.1109/SOLI.2008.4682878
