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A Scheduling Model of Coal Supply Chain Based on Supply Chain Management (SCM)

1School of Economics and Management, Shanxi University, P.R. China


American Journal of Industrial Engineering. 2014, Vol. 2 No. 1, 15-20
DOI: 10.12691/ajie-2-1-4
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Jiguang WANG, Jinjing ZHANG, Jingfeng LI. A Scheduling Model of Coal Supply Chain Based on Supply Chain Management (SCM). American Journal of Industrial Engineering. 2014; 2(1):15-20. doi: 10.12691/ajie-2-1-4.

Correspondence to: Jiguang  WANG, School of Economics and Management, Shanxi University, P.R. China. Email: wangjg@sxu.edu.cn

Abstract

In this paper, we develop a scheduling model based on SCM to deal with the contradiction between scale production and customized demand on coal industry. When analyzing the coal logistics from coal mine to end-customers, we draw an operating flow chart, from which we can find out the relationship among the departments in coal supply chain. According to the flow chart we can describe the input/output (I/O) constraints by algebraic expression. The objective function minimizes the operating costs of every department in coal supply chain, and an optimal solution can be obtained through the use of Mixed-integer linear programming (MILP). In that way we can get a specific task timetable to guild their work and the activities.

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