Modeling And Optimization Of Flexible Distribution System

In the past few years, with the rapid development of China's national economy and the advance of economic globalization, the logistics become "the third profit source" in China market. As a potential source of the profits, logistics and distribution has been given great attention and faster developed in the domestic industry. In the logistics and distribution industry development, logistics and distribution bottlenecks in our country have become the focus of widespread concern, and the flourishing trade and economic growth in China set higher requirements to the logistics and distribution industry. After China's accession to the WTO, whether production enterprises, wholesale trade, retail trade, or the logistics industry are facing the challenge of modern logistics and distribution in the face of increasingly fierce commercial competition.Distribution system in the whole supply chain system plays a vital role which connects manufacturing industry with end-users or consumers. The efficiency of distribution systems has a direct effect on the whole supply chain efficiency. In the face of increasingly fierce market competition and changing customer demand, finding a low-cost and efficient ways with the most appropriate flexibility of distribution system to meet customer needs and to ensure distribution system to meet the market fluctuations, is the main content of this dissertation to study.In view of this, the dissertation around the concept of flexibility of distribution system launched major research on the flexibility of distribution system and composition of flexible distribution system, quantitative definition of flexibility of inventory based on entropy theory, optimization models on flexibility of inventory in distribution system based on entropy, combining optimization with discrete event system simulation and mathematical analysis on the flexibility of two-echelon inventory in distribution system and simulation and optimization on buffer area of inbounds and outbound in distribution center with given level of flexibility of inventory in distribution system.The main research theses of this dissertation are as follows:1) First, with the beginning from the basic concept of the logistics, distribution and development history of those concepts, the distribution system related objects...