[article] 
inIndustrial & engineering chemistry research > Vol. 47 n°21 (Novembre 2008) . - p. 8301–8316

Titre :	Selection of Third-party service contracts for chemical logistics
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Mukta Bansal, Auteur ; Iftekhar A. Karimi, Auteur ; Rajagopalan Srinivasan, Auteur
Année de publication :	2008
Article en page(s) :	p. 8301–8316
Note générale :	Chmical engineering
Langues :	Anglais (eng)
Mots-clés :	Chemical logistics
Résumé :	Logistics costs in the chemical and related industries are among the highest in asset-intensive supply chains. Having managed the intraplant logistics well for years, companies are now looking for ways to lower the costs of enterprise-wide logistics by increasingly outsourcing a variety of logistics services to third-party logistics (3PL) firms globally. This paper presents a systematic framework for managing chemical logistics in an integrated manner. It presents a novel approach to represent logistics tasks in terms of recipes and recipe superstructures. Using this representation, it develops a mixed-integer linear programming formulation to fulfill the logistics needs of a global enterprise in terms of 3PL contracts and in-house execution. The goal is to obtain the contracts, and thus the 3PLs, that serve the total needs of a company in an integrated manner and with the minimum cost. Several industry-based examples show the utility of our approach.
En ligne :	http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ie800132f

[article] Selection of Third-party service contracts for chemical logistics [texte imprimé] / Mukta Bansal, Auteur ; Iftekhar A. Karimi, Auteur ; Rajagopalan Srinivasan, Auteur . - 2008 . - p. 8301–8316.
Chmical engineering
Langues : Anglais (eng)
in Industrial & engineering chemistry research > Vol. 47 n°21 (Novembre 2008) . - p. 8301–8316

Mots-clés :	Chemical logistics
Résumé :	Logistics costs in the chemical and related industries are among the highest in asset-intensive supply chains. Having managed the intraplant logistics well for years, companies are now looking for ways to lower the costs of enterprise-wide logistics by increasingly outsourcing a variety of logistics services to third-party logistics (3PL) firms globally. This paper presents a systematic framework for managing chemical logistics in an integrated manner. It presents a novel approach to represent logistics tasks in terms of recipes and recipe superstructures. Using this representation, it develops a mixed-integer linear programming formulation to fulfill the logistics needs of a global enterprise in terms of 3PL contracts and in-house execution. The goal is to obtain the contracts, and thus the 3PLs, that serve the total needs of a company in an integrated manner and with the minimum cost. Several industry-based examples show the utility of our approach.
En ligne :	http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ie800132f