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A Decision Support System for the Operations of Vending Machine Supply Chains in a Green Logistics Environment

녹색물류 환경에서 자판기 공급사슬 운영을 위한 의사결정지원시스템의 개발

  • Park, Yang-Byung (Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, College of Engineering, Kyung Hee University) ;
  • Yoon, Sung-Joon (Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, College of Engineering, Kyung Hee University)
  • 박양병 (경희대학교 공과대학 산업경영공학과) ;
  • 윤성준 (경희대학교 공과대학 산업경영공학과)
  • Received : 2012.01.17
  • Accepted : 2012.03.19
  • Published : 2012.09.01

Abstract

Regarding the green environment, it is important to boost the spread of environmentally friendly vending machines and to operate the vehicles for their inventory replenishments while minimizing emissions of greenhouse gases. In general, the vending machine management company lacks capability to operate the supply chain effectively in an integrated way under the dynamic, complex, and stochastic environment. This paper presents a decision support system, termed DSSVM, for the operations of the general and smart vending machine supply chains with stock-out-based, one stage item substitution in a green logistics environment. The DSSVM supports the estimation of item demand and substitution probabilities, determination of operation parameters, supply chain analysis, what-if analysis, and $CO_2$ analysis for which various analytical models are employed.

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