The Current Trend in Supply Chain Optimization

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The Current Trend in Supply Chain Optimization

• Mikio Kubo
• Tokyo University of Marine Science
• and Technology

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Agenda

• Happy joint work with Prof. Yoshi. Yamamoto why
  I started a work on supply chain
• Current trend in supply chain
• An on-going project on supply chain modeling
  language

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Invitation to the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP)
Written with Yoshi in Japanese Published in
1997 Too many jokes !
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Welcome!
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Icing on the cake
appeared on the cover of MPS newsletter
http//www.tsp.gatech.edu/gallery/igraphics/cake.h
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Icing on the cake (Original)
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Germany15,112 (2001) and Sweden 24,098 (2004)
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85,900 VLSI application (2006)
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Mona Lisa TSP A 100,000-city challenge problem
(100 Prize)

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My Research History

• Traveling Salesman
• Vehicle Routing
• Supply Chain Optimization
• Supply Chain Risk Management

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Trend in Supply Chain

• Increase in logistics costs more than 50
  (2002-2007)
• Globalization (with long lead time)
• Increase in risks
• gtSustainability in case of disruption is more
  important than cost minimization