MODELING OF CROSS-NETWORK COLLABORATION SUPPLY CHAIN AND SOLUTION VIA REINFORCEMENT LEARNING-BASED EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM

Authors

  • Yan Li Engineering Technical Department, China FAW Group Co., Ltd., Changchun, China
  • Mingrui Xu John and Marcia Price College of Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
  • Haobo Wang College of Software, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan, China
  • Xiaoguang Zhang Engineering Technical Department, CHINA FAW GROUP CO., LTD.
  • Yue Chen Engineering Technical Department, China FAW Group Co., Ltd., Changchun, China
  • Yufeng Liu Engineering Technical Department, China FAW Group Co., Ltd., Changchun, China
  • Yali Liang Commercial Vehicle Institute Connected Vehicle Development Department, Faw Jiefang Automotive Company, Changchun, China
  • Yanji Jiang Suzhou Automotive Research Institute, Tsinghua University, Suzhou, China; College of Software, Liaoning Technical University, Fuxin, China

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23055/ijietap.2024.31.2.9523

Keywords:

Supply Chain, collaboration in supply chains, Evolutionary algorithms, Supervised Learning

Abstract

Despite the increasing importance of collaboration in achieving cost-related advantages for companies, existing studies lack a systematic framework for determining how multiple supply chains can collectively facilitate strategic decision-making. In this study, we propose a multi-network collaborative mixed integer programming model and a reinforcement learning enhanced evolutionary algorithm to optimize cross-enterprise supply chains. The model facilitates collaborative decision-making among supply chains of different enterprises by incorporating collaborative cost management, partner sharing, collaborative transportation, and horizontal logistics. Our algorithm integrates an adaptive reinforcement learning process and an evolutionary structure with multi-branch tree encoding, allowing for the effective accumulation of solving experiences in different states to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of the solving process. We conducted extensive experiments using real data collected from electric automotive manufacturing supply chains. The experimental results show that the obtained solution quality is close to optimal with negligible margin for both small- and large-scale instances. Overall, our proposed approach enables the joint optimization of cross-enterprise collaborative supply chains and holds the potential for improving supply chain management in various industries.

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Published

2024-04-18

How to Cite

Li, Y., Xu, M., Wang, H., Zhang, X., Chen, Y., Liu, Y., Liang, Y., & Jiang, Y. (2024). MODELING OF CROSS-NETWORK COLLABORATION SUPPLY CHAIN AND SOLUTION VIA REINFORCEMENT LEARNING-BASED EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHM. International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Applications and Practice, 31(2). https://doi.org/10.23055/ijietap.2024.31.2.9523

Issue

Vol. 31 No. 2 (2024)

Section

Supply Chain Management

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