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Title Heuristic modeling for sustainable procurement and logistics in a supply chain using big data
ID_Doc 78561
Authors Kaur, H; Singh, SP
Title Heuristic modeling for sustainable procurement and logistics in a supply chain using big data
Year 2018
Published
DOI 10.1016/j.cor.2017.05.008
Abstract Drastic climate change has enforced business organizations to manage their carbon emissions. Procurement and transportation is one of the supply chain business operations where carbon emissions are huge. This paper proposes an environmentally sustainable procurement and logistics model for a supply chain. The proposed models are of MINLP (Mixed Integer Non Linear Program) and MILP (Mixed Integer Linear Program) form requiring a variety of the real time parameters from buyer and supplier side such as costs, capacities, lead-times and emissions. Based on real time data, the models provide an optimal sustainable procurement and transportation decision. It is also shown that large sized problems possessing essential 3V's of big data, i.e., volume, variety and velocity consume non-polynomial time and cannot be solved optimally. Therefore, a heuristic (H-1) is also proposed to solve the large sized problems involving big data. T-test significance is also conducted between optimal and heuristic solutions obtained using 42 randomly generated data instances possessing essential characteristics of big data. Encouraging results in terms of solution quality and computational time are obtained. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Author Keywords Sustainable procurement; Big data; Sustainable transportation; MILP (Mixed Integer Non Linear Program); MILP (Mixed Integer Linear Program); Heuristic
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
EID WOS:000440526800024
WoS Category Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications; Engineering, Industrial; Operations Research & Management Science
Research Area Computer Science; Engineering; Operations Research & Management Science
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