A multi-objective particle swarm optimization for production-distribution planning in supply chain network


Alireza Pourrousta, Saleh dehbari, Reza Tavakkoli-Moghaddam and Mohsen sadegh amalnik


Integrated supply chain includes different components of order, production and distribution and it plays an important role on reducing the cost of manufacturing system. In this paper, an integrated supply chain in a form of multi-objective decision-making problem is presented. The proposed model of this paper considers different parameters with uncertainty using trapezoid numbers. We first implement a ranking method to covert the fuzzy model into a crisp one and using multi-objective particle swarm optimization, we solve the resulted model. The results are compared with the performance of NSGA-II for some randomly generated problems and the preliminary results indicate that the proposed model of the paper performs better than the alternative method.


DOI: j.msl.2011.11.012

Keywords: Multi-objective optimization ,Ranking fuzzy numbers ,Multi-objective particle swarm optimization ,NSGA-II

How to cite this paper:

Pourrousta, A., dehbari, S., Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, R & amalnik, M. (2012). A multi-objective particle swarm optimization for production-distribution planning in supply chain network.Management Science Letters -, 2(2), 603-614-.


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