Abstract:

According to the characteristics of being highly time-sensitive of apparel products, this paper analyzes the high requirment on distribution time in the apparel industry and has developed a distribution model of multi-objective for raising the service level of distribution in the premise of saving distribution cost, which considering both customer time-satisfaction degree and distribution cost simultaneously. The first objective is to maximize customers time-satisfaction degree by the shortest time of distribution, which reflects the service level of the distribution system. The other one is to minimize the distribution cost, which reflects the economic benefits of the distribution system. Furthermore, a multi-objective algorithm is proposed which identifies minimizing the distribution cost as a priority goal and identifies maximizing customers time-satisfaction degree as a sub-priority goal. The feasibility of the algorithm is verified by practical examples.