Coordinated allocation production routing problem for mobile supply chains with shared factories

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Abstract

The mobile supply chain (MSC) is a new development that aims to help companies implement these ideas. In MSCs, production, distribution, and delivery of a product family is performed by a mobile factory (MF), which can be carried by truck and shared among different production sites. In this paper, a real-world application of mobile factories in the chemical industry is studied. Critical production assets (e.g. reactor) are carried by truck and can produce a product family locally. For this purpose, a mixed-integer mathematical model is developed to optimize the logistics costs of MSCs, concerning retailer/job-order allocation, production scheduling, and MF routing. The proposed optimization model is overly complex due to the three NP-hard sub-problems. Therefore, a neighborhood search and an evolutionary algorithm are developed to solve the problem in large-scale data sets. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithms can find a near-optimal solution in a reasonable time.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number107501
Journal Computers & chemical engineering : an international journal of computer applications in chemical engineering
Volume155
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

Scopus 85115149799

Keywords

Research priority areas of TU Dresden

Keywords

  • Vehicle routing problem, Mobile supply chain, Shared factory, Production routing problem, Shared economy