This paper presents a bi-level robust optimization model, where a food company maximizes its profit and minimizes post-harvest loss by optimally deploying grain processing/storage facilities and determining grain purchase price, while a group of spatially distributed non-cooperative farmers determine harvest time, shipment, storage, and market decisions under yield uncertainty and market equilibrium. The non-cooperative behavior of the food company and the farmers is represented by a bi-level Stackelberg leader follower's game model with mixed-integer decision variables. The proposed model and solution approach are applied to case studies for Illinois and Brazil.
Robust grain supply chain design considering post-harvest loss and harvest timing equilibrium
2016
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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