Using metaheuristic and fuzzy system for the optimization of material pull in a push-pull flow logistics network

DOI10.1155/2013/359074MaRDI QIDQ460499zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Afshin Mehrsai, Klaus-Dieter Thoben, Hamid Reza Karimi, Bernd Scholz-Reiter

Publication date 13 October 2014

Published in Mathematical Problems in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/359074

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Transportation, logistics and supply chain management (90B06) Approximation methods and heuristics in mathematical programming (90C59) Fuzzy and other nonstochastic uncertainty mathematical programming (90C70)

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Summary: Alternative material flow strategies in logistics networks have crucial influences on the overall performance of the networks. Material flows can follow push, pull, or hybrid systems. To get the advantages of both push and pull flows in networks, the decoupling-point strategy is used as coordination mean. At this point, material pull has to get optimized concerning customer orders against pushed replenishment-rates. To compensate the ambiguity and uncertainty of both dynamic flows, fuzzy set theory can practically be applied. This paper has conceptual and mathematical parts to explain the performance of the push-pull flow strategy in a supply network and to give a novel solution for optimizing the pull side employing Conwip system. Alternative numbers of pallets and their lot-sizes circulating in the assembly system are getting optimized in accordance with a multi-objective problem; employing a hybrid approach out of meta-heuristics (genetic algorithm and simulated annealing) and fuzzy system. Two main fuzzy sets as triangular and trapezoidal are applied in this technique for estimating ill-defined waiting times. The configured technique leads to smoother flows between push and pull sides in complex networks. A discrete-event simulation model is developed to analyze this thesis in an exemplary logistics network with dynamics.

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