Tackling Industrial-Scale Supply Chain Problems by Mixed-Integer Programming

Tackling Industrial-Scale Supply Chain Problems by Mixed-Integer Programming

Year:    2019

Author:    Gerald Gamrath, Ambros Gleixner, Thorsten Koch, Matthias Miltenberger, Dimitri Kniasew, Dominik Schlögel, Alexander Martin, Dieter Weninger

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 37 (2019), Iss. 6 : pp. 866–888

Abstract

The modeling flexibility and the optimality guarantees provided by mixed-integer programming greatly aid the design of robust and future-proof decision support systems. The complexity of industrial-scale supply chain optimization, however, often poses limits to the application of general mixed-integer programming solvers. In this paper we describe algorithmic innovations that help to ensure that MIP solver performance matches the complexity of the large supply chain problems and tight time limits encountered in practice. Our computational evaluation is based on a diverse set, modeling real-world scenarios supplied by our industry partner SAP.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.1905-m2019-0055

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 37 (2019), Iss. 6 : pp. 866–888

Published online:    2019-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    23

Keywords:    Supply chain management Supply network optimization Mixed-integer linear programming Primal heuristics Numerical stability Large-scale optimization.

Author Details

Gerald Gamrath

Ambros Gleixner

Thorsten Koch

Matthias Miltenberger

Dimitri Kniasew

Dominik Schlögel

Alexander Martin

Dieter Weninger