Inventory and Routing Problem of Supply Chain Under Carbon Emission Constraint

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10.2991/emcs-17.2017.65How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Carbon emission; Supply chain; Inventory; Routing

Abstract

Sustainable development requires supply chains to operate in a low carbon way, and the inventory and transportation decision in a supply chain has an important influence on its overall carbon emissions. Based on the cooperative concept of jointly managed inventory among the members, this paper takes the multi-period Inventory Routing Problem (IRP) of a two stage supply chain as the research object which has some different characteristics such as supplying transportation, heterogeneous vehicles and emission constraint from the existing researches, builds an Integer Linear Programming(ILP) model under carbon emission constraints for the problem firstly, and then does experiments and analyzes the results on an actual case, finds out that the carbon emissions of a supply chain can be reduced greatly by jointly managing inventory and optimizing transportation routes at the expense of a small operating cost increase. The research results also provide some valuable implications for the low carbon improvement of supply chains.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jianhua Wang
AU  - Xianfeng Huang
AU  - Yingying Shang
AU  - Ting Cao
PY  - 2017/03
DA  - 2017/03
TI  - Inventory and Routing Problem of Supply Chain Under Carbon Emission Constraint
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 7th International Conference on Education, Management, Computer and Society (EMCS 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 330
EP  - 337
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/emcs-17.2017.65
DO  - 10.2991/emcs-17.2017.65
ID  - Wang2017/03
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