Production-distribution planning in supply chain using a hybrid approach

Production-distribution planning is the most important part in supply chain management. To solve this integrated planning problem, either analytic or simulation approach have been developed. However, these two approaches have their own demerits in problem solving. In this paper, a hybrid approach is proposed which is a specific problem solving procedure combin Experimental results of the hybrid approach for the developed system show that more realistic solutions with respect to the analytic model reflecting stochastic nature of real systems are quite different from the initial analytic solutions.