Publication Date

2017

Document Type

Dissertation/Thesis

First Advisor

Nguyen, Christine

Degree Name

M.S. (Master of Science)

Legacy Department

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

LCSH

Industrial engineering

Abstract

A consolidation center was established near a set of suppliers with perishable products that have a deterioration rate to consolidate their products and reduce transportation costs. A deterministic demand was considered to solve the model for optimal transportation and holding costs to the suppliers via consolidation center. The products from all suppliers were consolidated at the center to reduce freight transportation costs, which would otherwise have been individually shipped by each supplier. A mixed integer programming (MIP) model was developed to solve the optimal cost of shipping considering the holding cost, transportation cost and deterioration rate. The MIP model was then solved using IBM ILOG CPLEX software. The results of the CPLEX model were compared to new model, which involves decomposition of the original model and using a Lagrangian relaxation heuristic.

Comments

Advisors: Christine Nguyen.||Committee members: Purushothaman Damodaran; Murali Krishnamurthi; Ziteng Wang.||Includes bibliographical references.||Includes illustrations.

Extent

iv, 41 pages

Language

eng

Publisher

Northern Illinois University

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In Copyright

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NIU theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from Huskie Commons for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without the written permission of the authors.

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