Increased global competition, rising costs and rapid technological change are among the factors that have turned management focus towards supply chain management. Thus, improving efficiency and cutting costs at all stages of the supply chain are viewed as critical issues to remain competitive. In this sense, integrated decision models are having increasing interest in order to improve the quality of planning and to reduce associated costs. An integrated multi-commodity production planning and capacitated vehicle routing with multi-time periods model has been presented. The model is based on...
Increased global competition, rising costs and rapid technological change are among the factors that have turned management focus towards supply chain...