# American Institute of Mathematical Sciences

June  2019, 9(2): 113-132. doi: 10.3934/naco.2019009

## Integrated modeling and optimization of material flow and financial flow of supply chain network considering financial ratios

 1 State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipment & Technology, School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, PR China 2 Department of Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 Skudai, Malaysia 3 Department of Industrial Engineering. Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Science and Art University of Yazd, Yazd, Iran

The reviewing process of this paper was handled by Associate Editors A. (Nima) Mirzazadeh, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran and Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. This paper was for the occasion of The 12th International Conference on Industrial Engineering (ICIE 2016), which was held in Tehran, Iran during 25-26 January, 2016

Received  November 2016 Revised  December 2018 Published  January 2019

In today's competitive environment, businesses are searching for tools and instruments, using which they can reduce their costs as much as possible in order to increase profits. The supply chain as a process which requires comprehensive management can be a great help in this regard for companies. The majority of approaches evaluated in supply chain primarily deal with logistic and material flows and neglect a lot of financial dimensions. This is while the financial flow in the supply chain can play an effective role in improving and optimizing the chain and contribute heavily to the profitability of the business. This paper deals with the financial flow of the supply chain model along with the material flow. It indicates that while optimizing the financial flow will provide the maximum profit for the plant, through simultaneous modeling of both these flows, better results can be reached. On the other hand, optimizing the financial flow allows the financial factors to be also considered in the model, which helps the business reach higher profits and better management of financial processes, which in turn shifts the business towards a modern industrial unit.

Citation: Qiong Liu, Ahmad Reza Rezaei, Kuan Yew Wong, Mohammad Mahdi Azami. Integrated modeling and optimization of material flow and financial flow of supply chain network considering financial ratios. Numerical Algebra, Control & Optimization, 2019, 9 (2) : 113-132. doi: 10.3934/naco.2019009
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The Selected Supply Chain
Trend of Changes in Exogenous Cash and Accounts Receivable during the Time Periods $t$
Liabilities in Time Periods for both Financial and Material Flows
Cash in Time Periods for both Financial and Material Flows
Income from Sales in each Time Period
Net Profit in each Time Period
Return on Sales in each Time Period
Results Obtained from Solving the Model
 $\Delta SA$ $\Delta LA$ $\Delta SL$ $\Delta LL$ $\Delta E$ Profile Financial flow 544349 105790 28500 0 678639 301233 Material flow 513840 69600 28500 0 549300 380341
 $\Delta SA$ $\Delta LA$ $\Delta SL$ $\Delta LL$ $\Delta E$ Profile Financial flow 544349 105790 28500 0 678639 301233 Material flow 513840 69600 28500 0 549300 380341
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