With increasing competitiveness in the business world, focus on supply chain has got greater attention. Therefore supply chain has to be made effective by reducing unnecessary losses occurring in the supply network. These losses are caused due to production, distribution planning and improper routing of vehicles in supply chain networks. The objective of this paper is to reduce costs across the supply chain by effectively allocating distribution centers to warehouses, reducing transportation costs and inventory costs. A nontraditional optimization tool that can effectively find good solutions to difficult combinatorial problems is Particle swarm optimization (PSO). Particle swarm optimization depicts the intelligence in swarm and flocking of swarms. The flocking depicts the information in the form of position and velocity. The clustering is done by calculating the distance from warehouse to various distribution centers which are assigned to the respective warehouses for distribution. The position and velocity of swarms are developed based on the distance matrix given. This lays platform to manage the supply chain optimally. Constraints were imposed on the routes traversed by the swarms. The constraints given are warehouse capacity and the distance to be traveled by swarm.
Keywords: Supply chain network, Particle Swarm Optimization, Transportation cost.
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