Simulation-based heuristic method for container supply chain network optimization

Schedule design for sustainable container supply chain networks with port time windows

“…Constraint (7) eliminates symmetric solutions. Constraint (8) confirms that the sailing time on a leg is not less than a minimum required value and ships cannot sail at a speed that exceeds V max r . Constraint (9) defines the relation of different time components in a round-trip journey.…”

“…Another category of relevant studies is focused on port operations, e.g., Chang et al [3,4], He et al [7], Du et al [6], Yan et al [22], Sun et al [13], Yin et al [23], Salido et al [12], He et al [8,9]. Both quay-side operations including berth allocation and quay crane assignment and yard-side operations such as yard template planning and yard truck scheduling have been investigated.…”

“…Given z w ri and z w r;iþ1 ; w 2 W; t ri can only take values as follows: P w2W wz w r;iþ1 À P w2W wz w ri À t port ri , P w2W wz w r;iþ1 À P w2W wz w ri À t port ri þ 7, P w2W wz w r;iþ1 À P w2W wz w ri À t port ri þ 14, etc., while satisfying constraint (8). The possible values of t ri differ from each other by an integer number of weeks.…”

“…He et al [9] proposed a strategy to resolve the problem of sharing internal trucks among multiple container terminals and proposed a simulation optimization method to obtain near-optimal solutions. He et al [8] proposed a simulation-based heuristic method to solve the problem of multi-echelon container supply chain network.…”

The New Generation of Operations Research Methods in Supply Chain Optimization: A Review

“…J. He et al [113] employed either case of evaluating and checking for the feasibility of the individual solutions by integrating the simulation into a genetic algorithm and particle swarm optimization to repair the unfeasible solutions and evaluate them, respectively. In another example, M-Torres [114] solved stochastic LRP using a simulation-based ant colony optimization algorithm.…”