Purchase and Transportation Planning for Food Retailing in Japan

日本食品零售業採購暨運輸規劃之探討

坂和正敏(Masatoshi Sakawa) ； 西崎一郎(Ichiro Nishizaki) ； 松井猛(Takeshi Matsui) ； 林田智弘(Tomohiro Hayashida)

《Asia Pacific Management Review》 18卷1期 (2013/03) Pp. 79-92+v

https://doi.org/10.6126/APMR.2013.18.1.05

摘要

此篇論文旨在評估日本食品零售業者的採購和交通規劃，並採用線性規劃來解釋並說明他們的利潤在何時可達到最大化。日本的食品零售業者習慣先在市內的中央批發市場採購所需的蔬菜和水果，然後再用卡車運回倉庫存放。運用線性規劃找出最佳解後，接著我們從管理的角度出發，藉由改變某些參數進行敏感度分析，最後，就是否將採購業務外包給批發商進行討論。

關鍵字

購買問題 ； 食品零售業 ； 線性規劃 ； 敏度分析

並列摘要

In this paper, we consider purchase and transportation planning for food retailing in Japan, and formulate a linear programming problem where the profit of a food retailer is maximized. The food retailer deals with vegetables and fruits which are purchased at the central wholesale markets in several cities, and transports them by truck from each of the central wholesaler markets to the food retailer's storehouse. After solving the linear programming problem and examining the optimal solution, we conduct sensitivity analysis by changing some parameters from managerial viewpoints. Finally, we discuss outsourcing of the purchase operations to a distributer.

並列關鍵字

Purchase problem ； food retailing ； linear programming ； sensitivity analysis

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