Sébastien Le Digabel

Exact and heuristic solutions of the global supply chain problem with transfer pricing

  • Pierre Hansen
  • Sébastien Le Digabel
  • Sylvain Perron
  • Nenad Mladenovic
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Nonlinear Optimization, Supply Chain Management Tags , , , , ,

    We examine the example of a multinational corporation that attempts to maximize its global after tax profits by determining the flow of goods, the transfer prices, and the transportation cost allocation between each of its subsidiaries. Vidal and Goetschalckx (2001) proposed a bilinear model of this problem and solved it by an Alternate heuristic. We … Read more

    Parallel Space Decomposition of the Mesh Adaptive Direct Search algorithm

  • Charles Audet
  • John E. Dennis, Jr.
  • Sébastien Le Digabel
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Nonsmooth Optimization, Parallel Algorithms Tags , , , ,

    This paper describes a parallel space decomposition PSD technique for the mesh adaptive direct search MADS algorithm. MADS extends a generalized pattern search for constrained nonsmooth optimization problems. The objective of the present work is to obtain good solutions to larger problems than the ones typically solved by MADS. The new method PSD-MADS is an … Read more