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Integrated Production and Distribution Planning for a Food Processing Company

Madhvarayan, Vishnu
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3732-1986
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1459155559

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2016, MS, University of Cincinnati, Engineering and Applied Science: Mechanical Engineering.
An integrated production and distribution planning problem was modeled, inspired by a consumer goods manufacturing company specialized in food processing. A specific mixed integer linear programming formulation was developed and it's performance tested with an industry sized data set(excess of 150 thousand variables and 100 thousand constraints). A generous use of integer variables instead of continuous variables, considered typically harder to solve, was accommodated to provide realistic solutions and infeasibility issues were addressed using penalty variables. Feasible solutions, reasonably close to optimality were obtained by leveraging powerful off the shelf optimization solvers instead of building decomposition techniques or heuristics in the formulation. Potential logistics cost savings in the range of 7 to 15 % were demonstrated using multiple trials. A framework for automating a large portion of the optimization process was built using a combination of tools such as Gurobi,R and excel spreadsheets. A future road map for potential improvements in the model and the automation framework were also summarized.
Hongdao Huang, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Sundararaman Anand, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
David Thompson, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
69 p.
Operations Research
MIP; Mixed Integer Programming; Gurobi; Integrated production and distribution planning

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  • Madhvarayan, V. (2016). Integrated Production and Distribution Planning for a Food Processing Company [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1459155559

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Madhvarayan, Vishnu. Integrated Production and Distribution Planning for a Food Processing Company. 2016. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1459155559.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Madhvarayan, Vishnu. "Integrated Production and Distribution Planning for a Food Processing Company." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1459155559

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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