Improved Differential Evolution Algorithm for 4PL Supply Chain Network Design Considering the Customer Behavior

Abstract

Fourth party logistics (4PL) supply chain network design problem considering the behavior of customer service satisfaction becomes more important in supply chain network design problem. It is NP-hard problem. Improved differential evolution (IDE) algorithm is applied to solve this problem in this paper. In order to handle the infeasible solution efficiently, a two-stage algorithm, the minimum cost flow incorporated with macro-micro adjustment embedded improved differential evolution (MMAMFC-IDE), is designed. The results of numerical experiments show that MMAMFC-IDE can get relatively better results compared with the minimum cost flow embedded improved differential evolution(MFC-IDE).