Toward integrated production and distribution management in multi-echelon supply chains

An iterative MILP-based approach for the maritime logistics and transportation of multi-parcel chemical tankers

“…The proposed MILP formulation is based on the notion of general precedence extending the immediate precedence concept for routing problems presented in Cóccola et al (2013). If a pair of ports (p, p 0 ) are visited by the same ship s (X ps = X p 0 s = 1), the sequencing variable PR pp 0 s denotes that port p is visited before (PR pp 0 s = 1) o after (PR pp 0 s = 0) port p 0 in the route of ship s. Consequently, the general precedence sequencing variable is only defined for each pair (p, p 0 ), with p < p 0 .…”

“…For instance, the multiple vehicle time-window-constrained pickup and delivery problem (MVPDPTW) faced in Dondo, Méndez, and Cerdá (2008) is capable of handling transport requests with multiple origins and/or destinations, heterogeneous vehicles, and multiple depots. In addition, the underlying ideas of the PDPTW problem have been also applied to the coordination of production and distribution activities in multi-site systems (Cóccola, Zamarripa, Méndez, & Espuña, 2013;Dondo & Cerdá, 2013;Méndez, Bonfill, Espuña, & Puigjaner, 2006). Other variant of the classical VRP is the Delivery and Pickup Problem (DPP).…”

Designing a multi-echelon supply chain network: A car manufacturer case study

“…As a result, most of the papers in this field consider a multi-echelon SC network. With considering the multi-echelon concept, supply chain is an integrated system that consists of suppliers, customers and intermediate centers which make a relation between all parties [2][3][4][5]. The most significant issues at SC management are categorized into three phases: (i) supply chain design (ii) supply chain planning and (iii) control of supply chain.…”

Process Supply Chains Management – Where are We? Where to Go Next?

“…Corsano et al (2014), designed SCs with explicit consideration of the detailed plant performance of the embedded facilities, batch processes were incorporated. Coccola et al (2013), considered the integration of production and distribution aspects into a multi-echelon SC where single stage parallel lines of multi-product batch plants together with multi-echelon, multi-product distribution networks were modeled. The model developed is able to solve complex problems providing detailed information on the scheduling coordination for the different SCs activities.…”