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   <dc:title>Development of a hybrid metaheuristic for the efficient solution of strategic supply chain management problems: application to the energy sector</dc:title>
   <dc:creator>Copado Méndez, Pedro Jesús</dc:creator>
   <dc:contributor>Blum, Christian</dc:contributor>
   <dc:subject>Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Informàtica teòrica::Algorísmica i teoria de la complexitat</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Heuristic</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Computer algorithms</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Mathematical optimization</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Supply chain management (SCM)</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Heurística</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Algorismes computacionals</dc:subject>
   <dc:subject>Optimització matemàtica</dc:subject>
   <dc:description>Supply chain management (SCM) addresses the strategic, tactical, and operational&#xd;
decision making that optimizes the supply chain performance. The&#xd;
strategic level defines the supply chain configuration: the selection of suppliers,&#xd;
transportation routes, manufacturing facilities, production levels, technologies.&#xd;
The tactical level plans and schedules the supply chain to meet&#xd;
actual demand. The operational level executes plans. Tactical and operational&#xd;
level decision-making functions are distributed across the supply&#xd;
chain.&#xd;
To increase or optimize performance, supply-chain functions must be&#xd;
perfectly coordinated. But the cycles of the enterprise and the market make&#xd;
this difficult: raw material does not arrive on time, production facilities&#xd;
fail, workers are ill, customers change or cancel orders, therefore, causing&#xd;
deviations from the plan. In some cases, these situations may be dealt&#xd;
with locally. In other cases, the problem cannot be ”locally contained” and&#xd;
modifications across many functions are required. Consequently, the supply&#xd;
chain management system must coordinate the revision of plans or schedules.&#xd;
The ability to better understand an algorithm is important to focus on the&#xd;
following variables: tactical and operational levels of the supply chain so that&#xd;
the timely dissemination of information, accurate coordination of decisions,&#xd;
and management of actions among people and systems is achieved ultimately determines the efficient, coordinated achievement of enterprise goals</dc:description>
   <dc:date>2011-01-14</dc:date>
   <dc:type>Master thesis</dc:type>
   <dc:identifier>https://hdl.handle.net/2099.1/11157</dc:identifier>
   <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
   <dc:rights>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/</dc:rights>
   <dc:rights>Open Access</dc:rights>
   <dc:rights>Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain</dc:rights>
   <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
   <dc:publisher>Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya</dc:publisher>
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