A Decision Support System Based on Genetic Algorithm (Case Study: Scheduling in Supply Chain)

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1 Assistant Prof., Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

2 MSc. Student of Science in Business Administration, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

Abstract

Nowadays, the application of effective and efficient decisions on complex issues require the use of decision support systems. This Paper provided a decision support system based on the genetic algorithm for production and transportation scheduling problem in a supply chain. It is assumed that there are number of orders that should be produced by suppliers and should be transported to the plant by a transportation fleet. The aim is to assign orders to the suppliers, specify the order of their production, allocate processed orders to the vehicles for transport and to arrange them in a way that minimizes the total delivery time. It has been shown that the complexity of the problem was related to Np-hard and there was no possibility of using accurate methods to solve the problem in a reasonable time. So, the genetic algorithm was used in this paper to solve the problem. By using this decision support system, a new approach to supply chain management was proposed. The analysis of the approach proposed in this study compared to the conventional approaches by the decision support system indicated the preference of our proposed approach

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Journal of Information Technology Management
Volume 8, Issue 3
September 2016
Pages 455-476

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