A technique for determining the optimum mix of logistics service providers of a make-to-order supply chain by formulating and solving a constrained nonlinear cost optimization problem

In this paper, a technique has been developed to determine the optimum mix of logistic service providers of a make-to-order (MTO) supply chain. A serial MTO supply chain with different stages/ processes has been considered. For each stage different logistic service providers with different mean proc...

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Main Authors: Mrityunjoy Roy, Ranjan Kumar Gupta, Tanmoy Dasgupta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Growing Science 2013-04-01
Series:Decision Science Letters
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Online Access:http://www.growingscience.com/dsl/Vol2/dsl_2013_9.pdf