Monthatipkul and Yenradee [26] proposed a new inventory control
system called the inventory distribution plan (IDP) control system for
one-warehouse and multi-retailer supply chain. In the IDP control
system, a proposed mixed-integer linear programming model was
solved to determine an optimal IDP that controls the inventories of the
supply chain.
This paper is organized as follows: Decision model is given in
Section 2. Section 3 is devoted to the branch and bound method as
well as GA and SA that are developed as solution techniques. In section
4, proposed algorithms are compared using sample numerical example
problems. The conclusion and future works explained in the last section.