Dynamic Planning of Reusable Containers in a Close-loop Supply Chain under Carbon Emission Constrain

Ech-Charrat, Mohammed Rida; Amechnoue, Khalid; Zouadi, Tarik

doi:10.22034/2017.4.01

Dynamic Planning of Reusable Containers in a Close-loop Supply Chain under Carbon Emission Constrain

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ National School of Applied Sciences of Tangier, Tangier, Morocco.

² BEAR Lab, International University of Rabat, Technopolis Shore Rocade Sala Al Jadida, Morocco

10.22034/2017.4.01

Abstract

Nowadays, Companies need to collect and to deliver goods from and to their depots and their customers. Reusable containers are considered as a greener choice and a cost saving strategy. This paper addresses a dynamic management of reusable containers (e.g gases bottles, wood pallets, maritime containers, etc.) in a Closed-loop supply chain. The aim of the study is to find an optimal lot sizing and assignment strategy that minimizes the cost of reusable containers management under environmental constraint. In this contribution, a new integer-linear-programming model and two hybrid approaches based on the genetic algorithm are proposed to solve the problem. The second hybrid method is enhanced with a local search based on the VNS (variable neighborhood search). The numerical results show the performance of the two hybrid approaches in terms of solution quality and response time.

Keywords

Main Subjects

optimization in supply chain management

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