Research Article

A Four-Type Decision-Variable MINLP Model for a Supply Chain Network Design

Table 8

Computational results for all instances.

Instance 1 Instance 2 Instance 3

Total variables 2,818 10,895 21,423
Binary variables 1,293 4,366 8,142
Functional constraints 1,444 5,061 10,107
Calls to NLP and MILP solvers 12 3 2
Iterations for NLP solver 12 3 2
Iterations for MILP solver 6,888,781 3,228,522 2,175,477

Total time (sec) 8,013.87 10,383.49 15,342.75

Used memory (MB) 96.7 101.0 131.2