Sminaire Seminar Frank Meisel School of Economics and

Séminaire / Seminar Frank Meisel School of Economics and Business Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Allemagne «The Design of Supply Networks under Maximum Customer Order Lead Times» Résumé/Abstract DATE MODIFIÉE / MODIFIED DATE Mardi / Tuesday 25 mai 2010 / May 25, 2010 This talk addresses the design of facility networks that produce goods and distribute them to customers. For providing a certain level of service to the customers, the lead time for fulfilling customer orders is restricted in the investigated problem. This restriction calls for network designs, where production and delivery operations can be performed within the preset maximum time span. Various instruments can be used by companies to meet such a requirement, like locating facilities close to markets, producing products to stock, choosing fast modes of transportation, or delivering products directly from plants to customers without the use of distribution centers. We incorporate these options in a multi-layer facility location model, where suppliers, plants, and warehouses produce and distribute multiple products with complex bills of materials. Optimal network designs have been generated for a set of test instances using the general-purpose solver Cplex 11. We present computational results that reveal the impact of maximum customer order lead times on network structure and cost. From these results, it is identified how the different instruments can be combined for meeting restricted order lead times within the design of supply networks. Responsable/Organizer : Michel Gendreau Note : Frank Meisel est stagiaire postdoctoral à l’École Polytechnique de Montréal. Frank Meisel is a postdoctoral fellow at l’École Polytechnique de Montréal. Frank. Meisel@cirrelt. ca Information : Pierre Marchand Responsable des communications du CIRRELT pierre. marchand@cirrelt. ulaval. ca 10 h 30 Salle/Room 5441 Pavillon André-Aisenstadt Université de Montréal Bienvenue à tous / Welcome to all