The impact of the cost of quality on serial supply‐chain network design

摘要: This paper presents a model for supply‐chain design that considers the Cost of Quality as well traditional manufacturing and distribution costs (SC‐COQ model). It includes three main contributions: (1) SC‐COQ internally computes quality whole supply chain considering interdependencies among business entities, whereas previous works have assumed exogenously given functions; (2) can be used at strategic planning level to logistic route achieves maximum profit while overall within chain; (3) we provide two solution methods based on simulated annealing genetic algorithm perform computational experiments test instances.