Optimal production Allocation in a Supply Chain System Based on TOC

摘要

Enterprise optimization can rapidly strip significant "bottom line" costs out of global operations, giving companies a real competitive edge. The benefits of managing supply chain networks by integrating operational, design and financial decisions have been acknowledged by the industrial and academic community. In this paper, we investigate a two echelon supply chain system consist of multi-manufacturers and multi-distributors, we proposed a optimal production allocation mechanism based on Theory of Constraints(TOC) in face of meeting peak demand in certain period for the whole system, and Genetic algorithm(GA) has been selected in solving the optimal model in our work. Furthermore, a numerical example has been implemented to demonstrate the efficiency of our method.