Author(s)

Jie Ai ¹, Guiming Chen ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Xi'an Research Institute of High-Tech, Xi'an, China

Corresponding Author

Jie Ai

ABSTRACT

The content of this study is to realize the real-time optimization of supply chain and improve the overall efficiency of supply chain by comprehensively considering various algorithms or models and comprehensively considering the needs of all parties in the supply chain. Through comparative experiments, this paper verifies that the proposed algorithm based on deep reinforcement learning has significant advantages in meeting the demand of multi-direction material supply. This study designed a series of key experiments to comprehensively evaluate the Deep Q-network DQN (Deep Q-Leaning Network) algorithm, GA (Genetic Algorithm) and PSO (Particle Swarm Optimization) algorithm and Q-Learning (Quintuple Learning) on multi-direction material supply chain optimization. In the benchmark performance test, the DQN algorithm has the lowest total supply cost of $1,200, the algorithm evaluation meets the demand in 2 hours, and the satisfaction rate reaches 95%, which is far higher than other algorithms. It can be seen from the dynamic demand adaptability experiment that DQN algorithm is highly adaptable and flexible in responding to market demand fluctuations. The average response time of DQN algorithm evaluation is 2 hours in season, and the response time of DQN algorithm can also be maintained at 2.2 hours in the case of demand surge caused by emergencies. The above data proves its superior performance in dynamic environments. The robust robustness of the DQN algorithm was also further confirmed in the robustness and exception handling experiments, where DQN showed the shortest recovery time of 1.5 hours and the lowest cost impact of a 5% cost increase in the face of anomalies such as supply point failures, demand surges and transportation delays. From the above experimental data, it can be seen that DQN algorithm shows excellent benchmark performance, dynamic adaptability and robustness in the multi-direction material supply chain optimization problem, which can be said to be an effective and reliable solution. 

KEYWORDS

Material Supply Chain Management, DQN Algorithm, Optimization Algorithm, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Robustness

CITE THIS PAPER

Jie Ai, Guiming Chen, Optimization of Multi-Direction Material Supply Demand Based on Model Algorithm. Industrial Engineering and Innovation Management (2024) Vol. 7: 113-120. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/ieim.2024.070115.

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