Title: Production and distribution coordination: a case study in the textile industry

Authors: André Luís Shiguemoto; Gabriela Helena Bauab Shiguemoto

Addresses: Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná – UTFPR, Câmpus Cornélio Procópio, Avenida Alberto Carazzai, 1640, CEP 86300-000, Cornélio Procópio – PR, Brazil ' Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná – UTFPR, Câmpus Cornélio Procópio, Avenida Alberto Carazzai, 1640, CEP 86300-000, Cornélio Procópio – PR, Brazil

Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of coordinating a production-distribution system over a multi-period finite horizon, where a plant production produces several items that are distributed to a set of customers by a fleet of heterogeneous vehicles. The demand for each item at each customer is known over the horizon. The production planning determines how much to produce of each item in every period, while the distribution planning defines when customers should be visited and the vehicle routes. The objective is to minimise the sum of production and inventory costs at the facility and distribution costs. To solve this problem, we use a tabu search metaheuristics and the results are compared to those presented by the industry.

Keywords: supply chain; tabu search; production-distribution coordination; metaheuristic.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLSM.2023.129003

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 2023 Vol.44 No.2, pp.272 - 281

Received: 07 Dec 2019
Accepted: 09 Jan 2021
Published online: 14 Feb 2023 *

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