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In today's consumer society, there is a growing need for companies to optimise their sourcing processes, as without this, the performance of the entire supply chain can be severely compromised. An important step in this process is the integrated design of production and logistics processes to create an optimal value chain that lead to efficient operations. Conventional optimisation methods for blending technologies are focusing mainly on the optimisation of process parameters and neglect the logistics aspects that can further improve the efficiency of the overall system. Within the frame of this article, the author describes a novel model of supplier selection of production processes using blending technologies which makes it possible to analyse the impact of logistics constraints on the cost efficiency of the solution. The analysed supply chain is a multi-supplier, cross-docking facility based single user supply chain. As the numerical examples and computational results show, the new integrated approach makes it possible to increase the cost efficiency of the supply of blending technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
