Research Article

Production Scheduling and Customer Orders Assignment in a Three-Level Supply Chain

Table 9

Design of experiment results and the efficient set.

ParameterDescriptionProposed levelsThe most efficient value

Maximum distance, new solution can get in the temperature {0.3, 0.2, 0.1}0.1
The acceptance probability in temperature {0.6, 0.3, 0.1}0.1
CRChanging rate of the temperature in each iteration{0.99, 0.78, 0.6}0.99
Primary temperature{40, 30, 10}40