Sentence examples for customer zone from inspiring English sources

Demand of customer zone j.

Rate of return percentage from customer zone j.

Transportation cost per unit of returned products from customer zone j to collection/inspection center i.

(tilde{r}_{c}): fuzzy rate of return from customer zone c. (alpha): mean disposal fraction.

As a numerical illustration, a supply chain with four echelons, namely supplier, plant, distribution center, and customer zone, is considered.

Table 5 presents backorder costs and stochastic demands with mean and standard deviation for the customer zone.

The network considered in the model assumes a fixed number of suppliers, facilities, distributors, customer zones, disassembly locations, re-distributors and second customer zones.

The demand levels at customer zones are assumed to be deterministic.

In addition, the risk-pooling effect is taken into account when defining inventory levels in distribution centers and customer zones.

In particular, we study a Reverse Supply Chain Network Design (RSCND), which is designed according to three fundamental echelons (i.e. waste collection, processing and customer zones).

The heuristic method is first evaluated using randomly generated instances, with different sizes in terms of the number of suppliers, factories, warehouses, products, and customer zones.