Modeling a green inventory routing problem for perishable products with horizontal collaboration
| Autor: | Jack G.A.J. van der Vorst, Mehmet Soysal, Jacqueline M. Bloemhof-Ruwaard, Rene Haijema |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Decision support system
General Computer Science Total cost media_common.quotation_subject 0211 other engineering and technologies Wage Distribution (economics) WASS ComputerApplications_COMPUTERSINOTHERSYSTEMS 02 engineering and technology Management Science and Operations Research Operationele Research en Logistiek Demand uncertainty Inventory routing 0502 economics and business Perishability Horizontal collaboration media_common 021103 operations research business.industry 05 social sciences Energy consumption Environmental economics Modeling and Simulation Fuel efficiency Business Performance indicator Operations Research and Logistics 050203 business & management |
| Zdroj: | Computers and Operations Research 89 (2017) Computers and Operations Research, 89, 168-182 |
| ISSN: | 0305-0548 |
| Popis: | Increasing concerns on energy use, emissions and food waste requires advanced models for food logistics management. Our interest in this study is to analyse the benefits of horizontal collaboration related to perishability, energy use (CO2 emissions) from transportation operations and logistics costs in the Inventory Routing Problem (IRP) with multiple suppliers and customers by developing a decision support model that can address these concerns. The proposed model allows us to analyse the benefits of horizontal collaboration in the IRP with respect to several Key Performance Indicators, i.e., emissions, driving time, total cost comprised of routing (fuel and wage cost), inventory and waste cost given an uncertain demand. A case study on the distribution operations of two suppliers, where the first supplier produces figs and the second supplier produces cherries, shows the applicability of the model to a real-life problem. The results show that horizontal collaboration among the suppliers contributes to the decrease of aggregated total cost and emissions in the logistics system. The obtained gains are sensitive to the changes in parameters such as supplier size or maximum product shelf life. According to experiments, the aggregated total cost benefit from cooperation varies in a range of about 424% and the aggregated total emission benefit varies in a range of about 833% compared to the case where horizontal collaboration does not exist. HighlightsA chance-constrained model for the multi-supplier IRP is presented.Model accounts for perishability, explicit fuel consumption and demand uncertainty.Model allows us to analyse the benefits of horizontal collaboration in the IRP.A case study on the distribution operations of two suppliers shows model applicability.Horizontal collaboration contributed to the decrease of total cost and emissions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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