| Author | Devkota, Ashish |
| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | Supply Chain Network Design (SCND) is the most basic and crucial strategic decision that every firm has to make in order to sustain in this competitive and ever changing world. Lately, many research works have been done to reduce the risk in supply chain by incorporating the risks in design phase. However, most of the research works are focused on operational risk and only few deals with disruption risks. Especially, disruption at distribution center has been ignored in most of the cases and even if they are considered, they are not useful for the real world application. This research addresses a three echelon supply chain network design problem considering the risk of disruption at distribution center. Network considered is a single product one and has several capacitated distribution centers and customer zones with known demand. A mathematical model has been developed to select the sites to establish a number of distribution centers from a list of potential distribution centers by minimizing the total transportation cost of network and shortage cost considering risk of disruption at distribution centers. The assignment of goods to the distribution centers and customer zones are also determined from the model. Numerical experiments have been conducted considering various scenarios for testing the model. Sensitivity analyses of various parameters have also been conducted to check the robustness of the solution. |
| Year | 2019 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Engineering and Technology (SET) |
| Department | Department of Industrial Systems Engineering (DISE) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Microelectronics (ME) |
| Chairperson(s) | Huynh Trung Luong; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Pisut Koomsap;Mongkol Ekpanyapong; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | His Majesty the King’s Scholarships (Thailand); |
| Degree | Thesis (M. Eng.) -- Asian Institute of Technology, 2019 |