Integrating strategic and tactical decisions in livestock supply chain using bi-level programming, case study: Iran poultry supply chain

Ebrahim Teimoury, Armin Jabbarzadeh and Mohammadhosein Babaei

PLOS ONE, 2017, vol. 12, issue 10, 1-24

Abstract: Inventory management has frequently been targeted by researchers as one of the most pivotal problems in supply chain management. With the expansion of research studies on inventory management in supply chains, perishable inventory has been introduced and its fundamental differences from non-perishable inventory have been emphasized. This article presents livestock as a type of inventory that has been less studied in the literature. Differences between different inventory types, affect various levels of strategic, tactical and operational decision-making. In most articles, different levels of decision-making are discussed independently and sequentially. In this paper, not only is the livestock inventory introduced, but also a model has been developed to integrate decisions across different levels of decision-making using bi-level programming. Computational results indicate that the proposed bi-level approach is more efficient than the sequential decision-making approach.

Date: 2017
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