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Volume-5,Issue-5  ( May, 2017 )
Paper Title
A Heuristic Method for the two-stage Supply Chain Distribution Problem with Fixed Charge
Author Name
B. Srirangacharyulu, K. Srinivas
Affilition
Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli,Tamil Nadu, India Production Engineering Department,National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India
Pages
100-104
Abstract
A two-stage supply chain distribution problem with a fixed charge is considered in this paper. There is a variable transportation cost that depends linearly on the quantity transported, and a fixed cost associated with a route between a source and a destination when a non-zero quantity is transported. A heuristic method that is influenced by Vogel’s approximation method has been proposed with the objective of minimizing the total distribution cost. The proposed heuristic is compared with the existing methods. The comparison reveals that the proposed method provides solutions close to existing methods while having a simpler approach to its existing counterparts. Keywords - supply chain, fixed charge, heuristic.
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