NDLI: A preliminary simulated annealing for resilience supply chains

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Chavez, H. Castillo-Villar, K.K.
Copyright Year	2014
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Mech. Eng., Univ. of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA (Chavez, H.; Castillo-Villar, K.K.)
Abstract	Most of the products imported from Mexico to U.S. can be classified as perishable. The United States Trade Representative has reported that the overall importations from Mexico to U.S. were equivalent to $16.4 billion during 2012. Due to the geographical location of both countries most of the transportation of products across the U.S. - Mexico border is road modal transportation. The inspection of trucks at the border entry points can take a long and unpredictable time. For perishable products, these inspections have a very important effect on their shelf life once they arrive to their destination. This paper presents a novel model that combines a metaheuristic with a simulation. The proposed method was coded in $Matlab^{®}.$ This model helps in the selection of the amount of product that will be sent through each of the available routes. Random length of disruptive inspection time and availability of servers at the entry points are very important for the Supply Chain (SC) that includes the transportation system of perishables from Mexico to U.S. The proposed Simulation-based Optimization Model (SimOpt) minimizes transportation time and transportation cost of agricultural products traded across the U.S. - Mexico border to build a resilient supply chain. This SimOpt model considers realistic continuous probability distributions for the inspection time. This variability also accounts for the availability of inspection servers and lanes in the points of entry. The solution procedure finds solutions for a weighted (time and freight cost) objective function. The results of a case study are presented.
Starting Page	98
Ending Page	105
File Size	1501951
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479945009
DOI	10.1109/CIPLS.2014.7007167
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2014-12-09
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Computational modeling Simulated Annealing Stochastic processes Transportation Inspection Supply Chains Linear programming Probability distribution Optimization Disruptions Resilience
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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