Title
An Improved Differential Evolution Algorithm for a Multicommodity Location-Inventory Problem with False Failure Returns.
Abstract
Customer returns are a common phenomenon in many industries, and they have a significant impact on business organizations and their supply chains. False failure returns are returned products that have no functional or cosmetic defects, and they represent a large body of customer returns in practice. In this paper, we develop a mixed-integer nonlinear programming model to study a multicommodity location-inventory problem in a forward-reverse logistics network. This model minimizes the total cost in this network by considering false failure returns, and it also considers many real-world business scenarios in forward and reverse logistics flows. Moreover, we design a new heuristic approach to solve the model efficiently. Finally, numerical experiments are conducted to validate our solution approach and provide meaningful managerial insights.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1155/2018/1967398
COMPLEXITY
Field
DocType
Volume
Mathematical optimization,Heuristic,Reverse logistics,Nonlinear programming,Artificial intelligence,Supply chain,Total cost,Differential evolution algorithm,Machine learning,Mathematics
Journal
2018
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1076-2787
0
0.34
References 
Authors
17
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cong-Dong Li183.20
Hao Guo220.71
Ying Zhang3422.69
Shuai Deng400.34
Yu Wang541.77