Abstract

FATEMI GHOMI, S.M.T.  and  AZAD, N.. Designing a supply chain model with consideration demand forecasting and information sharing. S. Afr. J. Ind. Eng. [online]. 2009, vol.20, n.1, pp.69-82. ISSN 2224-7890.

In traditional supply chain inventory management, orders are the only information firms exchange, but information technology now allows firms to share demand and inventory data quickly and inexpensively. To have an integrated plan, a manufacturer not only needs to know demand information from its customers but also supply information from its suppliers. In this paper, information flow is incorporated in a three-echelon supply chain model. Also to decrease the risk of the supply chain system, the customers' demands are predicted first and this prediction is then used as an input to the supply chain model. In this paper a proposed evolving fuzzy predictor model will be used to predict the customers' demands. For solving the supply chain model, a hybrid heuristic combining tabu search with simulated annealing sharing the same tabu list is developed.

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