Optimization of productiondistribution Inventory model Under fuzzy environment

Abstract

The need to gain a global competitive advantage on the supply side newlinehas forced businesses to search for effective supply network strategies The newlineeffective selection of suppliers is the key ingredient for the success of supply newlinenetworks The increasing interest in evaluating the performance of supply newlinenetwork over the last years indicates the need for the development of complex newlineoptimization models able to answer unsolved questions in the productiondistribution newlinenetwork Implementations of a supply chain system have crucial newlineimpacts on a organization s financial performance Overall performance of a newlinesupply network is influenced significantly by the decisions taken in its newlineproduction distribution plan integrating the decisions in production transport newlineand warehousing as well as inventory management Thus one key issue in newlinethe performance evaluation of supply networks is the modeling and newlineoptimization of production distribution plan considering its actual complexity newlineThe main objective of the study is to minimize the annual total newlineexpenditure by assigning minimum number of secondary warehouses We newlinepropose a multi objective mathematical programming approach to select the newlinemost appropriate supply network elements newline newline