Plant and supply chain design considering operation policy

GABRIELA CORSANO; JORGE MARCELO MONTAGNA

Santa Fe (Argentina)

Jornada; 37° JAIIO, Jornadas Argentinas de Informática e Investigación Operativa. JII: Jornadas de Informática Industrial, Cadenas de abastecimiento; 2008

SADIO

The Supply Chain design models presented in the literature have focused on the integration problem, where links among nodes have to be determined in order to allow an efficient operation of the whole system. These approaches consider all the problem elements like black boxes, and the optimal solution determines the nodes allocation and their capacity, and the connections among nodes. In this work, a mathematical model is proposed where decisions about plant design are simultaneously taken with operational and planning decisions on the supply chain. The approach is focused the incorporation of operation policies in the model and on the impact of them on the SC and plant design. Three operation policies are considered in the model and different tradeoffs are analyzed between plant and SC design and operation, according to each proposed policy.