The course aims to present and analyze:
- The role of the supply chain management.
- Demand and supply planning in a supply chain.
- Applications and mathematical formulation.
- The traveling salesman problem. The bin packing problem.
- Transportation and distribution of products in the supply chain.
- Distribution network design. Distribution channels. Route planning. Problems of fleet selection and vehicle size.
- Vehicle routing problem. Variants of the vehicle routing problem.
- Scheduling problems.
- Facility location problems.
- Inventory management. Inventory routing problems in logistics (Single period inventory routing problem, multi-period inventory routing problem).
- Integrated supply chain management systems.
- Maritime logistics.
- Green supply chain.
- Electric and unmanned aerial vehicles in the supply chain.
After completing this course the students will be able to:
- Describe and Formulate Supply Chain Management Problems, such as product transportation, vehicle routing problem, facility location, inventory management, scheduling of operations
- Solve supply chain management problems
- Apply heuristics, metaheuristics, evolutionary and nature-inspired algorithms to solve supply chain management problems
- Program the algorithms for solving Supply Chain Management problems in Matlab, C, C++ and Python programming languages
- Analyze real-life situations of supply chain management problems
- Practice solving complex supply chain management problems
- Use software packages to solve supply chain management problems
Course type: Semester-Long Course
Duration: 13 weeks
Instructor(s): Ioannis Marinakis
University offering the course: Technical University of Crete
Language: English