Considering discrete delivery ordering and shipment consolidation in a three-echelon supply chain with failure.pdf
Creators: name: Seifbarghy, Mehdi
name: Nobil, Amir Hossein
name: Sedigh, Amir Hosein Afshar
name: Davar Pishva
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 90603 Industrial Electronics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 90505 Infrastructure Engineering and Asset Management
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: 91599 Interdisciplinary Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 91003 Machine Tools
subject: 91004 Machining
subject: 91099 Manufacturing Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: 91005 Manufacturing Management
subject: 91006 Manufacturing Processes and Technologies (excl. Textiles)
subject: 91007 Manufacturing Robotics and Mechatronics (excl. Automotive Mechatronics)
subject: 91008 Manufacturing Safety and Quality
subject: 91199 Maritime Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering
subject: FOS: Materials engineering
subject: 91102 Naval Architecture
subject: 90904 Navigation and Position Fixing
subject: 90405 Non-automotive Combustion and Fuel Engineering (incl. Alternative/Renewable Fuels)
subject: Nuclear Engineering
subject: 90902 Geodesy
subject: Genetic Engineering
subject: 91205 Functional Materials
subject: 90106 Flight Dynamics
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: 91002 Flexible Manufacturing Systems
subject: 90703 Environmental Technologies
subject: 99902 Engineering Instrumentation
subject: 91503 Engineering Practice
subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: 90701 Environmental Engineering Design
subject: 90503 Construction Materials
subject: 90502 Construction Engineering
subject: Computer Engineering
subject: 91502 Computational Heat Transfer

description: The aim of this paper is to extend research results published in two recent papers which had investigated single-vendor single-buyer inventory model with lost sales and discrete delivery orders and a model in which a single buyer orders a product from multiple vendors who deliver their products to the buyer as joint shipments. We extend the two models studied in the literature by considering a multi-product three-echelon supply chain including multiple suppliers, single manufacturer and single distributor with discrete delivery orders for raw materials and products. We assume that each product needs a specific raw material provided by the suppliers and the raw materials are delivered in batches to the manufacturer, which produces n products through n types of raw materials, and sends them to the distributor. All the products are manufactured utilising one machine and delivered in batches to the distributor. We also assume that a portion of the batches sent to the distributor by the manufacturer are defective. We have developed two heuristics based on genetic algorithm (GA) and biogeography-based optimisation (BBO) algorithm and our numerical results indicate that the GA-based heuristic slightly outperforms that of the BBO algorithm