Article ID: | iaor2013376 |
Volume: | 64 |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 318 |
End Page Number: | 332 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2013 |
Journal: | Computers & Industrial Engineering |
Authors: | Maiti Manoranjan, Maiti Manas Kumar, Mondal Madhab |
Keywords: | heuristics: genetic algorithms, inventory |
A two warehouse production‐recycling system for a single item with stock‐dependent demand is considered. Item is produced at a production plant situated at a market place having sufficiently large warehouse with a small decorated showroom. Units are continuously transformed from production center to a showroom at the market for sale and excess units are stored at the production center warehouse. Production is stopped at regular intervals and after some production cycles, recycling process is commissioned. Used units are collected from the customers (up to beginning of last recycling cycle) at a demand‐dependent fuzzy rate and then repaired to new condition before being sold again. Model is formulated using fuzzy differential equation and