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A multi-period and multi-product optimizer for cooperative supply chains
South African Journal of Business Management | Vol 43, No 1 | a178 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajbm.v43i1.178
| © 2018 M. Sepehri, K. Fayazbakhsh
| This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 13 April 2018 | Published: 31 March 2012
Submitted: 13 April 2018 | Published: 31 March 2012
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M. Sepehri, Graduate School of Management and Economics Sharif University of Technology, Iran, Islamic Republic ofK. Fayazbakhsh, Department of Computer Engineering and IT Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran, Islamic Republic of
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Members in a traditional supply chain compete to reduce their individual costs. But total cost is minimized in a cooperative, or a corporate managed, supply chain. A lower average cost and a lower cost variation are achieved by cooperative individual members in the long-run. The problem is formulated and solved as an integrated flow network. Previous research is expanded to include multi-period and multi-product cooperative supply chain with possibility of holding inventory in a multi-stage, multi-member setup. A Cooperative Supply Optimizer System (CSOS), a software-based coordination mechanism, is developed for large chains. It gathers operational information from members of the supply chain, and then guides them on ordering decisions for a minimum cost of the entire supply chain. Simulation results indicate an approximately 26% reduction in total supply chain costs, utilizing this formulation over a competitive setup. As the holding costs increase, the problem decomposes into single period (Just-in-time) again. The disturbing bullwhip effect disappears in cooperative supply chains.
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