Robust grain supply chain design considering post-harvest loss and harvest timing equilibrium

This paper presents a bi-level robust optimization model, where a food company maximizes its profit and minimizes post-harvest loss by optimally deploying grain processing/storage facilities and determining grain purchase price, while a group of spatially distributed non-cooperative farmers determine harvest time, shipment, storage, and market decisions under yield uncertainty and market equilibrium. The non-cooperative behavior of the food company and the farmers is represented by a bi-level Stackelberg leader follower’s game model with mixed-integer decision variables. The proposed model and solution approach are applied to case studies for Illinois and Brazil.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tre.2016.01.009
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136655451600017X
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • An, Kun
  • Ouyang, Yanfeng
• Publication Date: 2016-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 110-128
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
  • Volume: 88
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1366-5545
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13665545

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Design; Equilibrium (Economics); Farming; Grain; Optimization; Supply chain management
• Geographic Terms: Brazil; Illinois
• Subject Areas: Design; Economics; Freight Transportation; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01596912
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 22 2016 8:51AM