In order to study the capacitated lot sizing problem for a supply chain of corporate multi-location factories to minimize the total costs of production, inventory and transportation under the system capacity restricti...In order to study the capacitated lot sizing problem for a supply chain of corporate multi-location factories to minimize the total costs of production, inventory and transportation under the system capacity restriction and product due date, while at the same time considering the menu distributed balance, the mathematical programming models are decomposed and reduced from the 3 levels into 2 levels according to the idea of just-in-time production. In order to overcome the premature convergence of ACA (ant colony algorithms), the idea of mute operation is adopted in genetic algorithms and a PACA (parallel ant colony algorithms) is proposed for supply chain optimization. Finally, an illustrative example is given, and a comparison is made with standard BAB (Branch and Bound) and PACA approach. The result shows that the latter is more effective and promising.展开更多
文摘In order to study the capacitated lot sizing problem for a supply chain of corporate multi-location factories to minimize the total costs of production, inventory and transportation under the system capacity restriction and product due date, while at the same time considering the menu distributed balance, the mathematical programming models are decomposed and reduced from the 3 levels into 2 levels according to the idea of just-in-time production. In order to overcome the premature convergence of ACA (ant colony algorithms), the idea of mute operation is adopted in genetic algorithms and a PACA (parallel ant colony algorithms) is proposed for supply chain optimization. Finally, an illustrative example is given, and a comparison is made with standard BAB (Branch and Bound) and PACA approach. The result shows that the latter is more effective and promising.