A new strategic modeling approach for supply chain planning

Production planning and control as well as distribution and logistics are the main , critical and strategic processes in supply chains . Aggregate production -distribution planning APDP takes both of these processes into account simultaneously . considering the prevalence of both supplier selection and inventory control problems in supply chain management , this article addresses these problems simultaneously by developing a mathematical model MINLP for a supply chain system containing four echelons and the purpose of this paper is to formulate the generalized supply chain problemin which the objective is to minimize sum of the costs incurred within all of the levels.

کلیدواژه ها:

supply chain planning ، strategic management ، supply chain management ، mathematical modeling ، mixed -integer non -linear programming