Competitive planning modeling in bi-Level biomass supply chain

The decentralized supply chain mainly focuses on coordination and collaboration in decision making process in order to improve overall chain performance. Coordination in supply chain has been widely studied by researchers. The way of coordination in supply chain is the basic issue that has attracted the attention of many researchers. Various coordination strategies have been proposed by different researchers. In this paper a decentralized multi -stage, mixed integer programming (MIP) model using multimodal transport was designed for a forest biomass biofuel supply chain to manage logistics. The two transport modes are rail and truck. The objective of both factory and biomass supplier is to minimize the total cost for infrastructure, feedstock procurement harvest, transport, storage and process. The model coordinated strategic and tactical decisions. Strategic decisions include the number, capacity, and location of storage yards and factory. Tactical decisions included the amount of biomass shipped, processed and inventoried during a time period. Numerical tests have been used to evaluate the performance of the proposed model and the proposed algorithm.

کلیدواژه ها:

Biofuel supply chain ، multimodal transport ، decentralized decision-making ، coordination mechanism ، information sharing