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Publications by Henrique Piqueiro

2023

Managing Disruptions in a Biomass Supply Chain: A Decision Support System Based on Simulation/Optimisation

Authors
Piqueiro, H; Gomes, R; Santos, R; de Sousa, JP;

Publication
SUSTAINABILITY

Abstract
To design and deploy their supply chains, companies must naturally take quite different decisions, some being strategic or tactical, and others of an operational nature. This work resulted in a decision support system for optimising a biomass supply chain in Portugal, allowing a more efficient operations management, and enhancing the design process. Uncertainty and variability in the biomass supply chain is a critical issue that needs to be considered in the production planning of bioenergy plants. A simulation/optimisation framework was developed to support decision-making, by combining plans generated by a resource allocation optimisation model with the simulation of disruptive wildfire scenarios in the forest biomass supply chain. Different scenarios have been generated to address uncertainty and variability in the quantity and quality of raw materials in the different supply nodes. Computational results show that this simulation/optimisation approach can have a significant impact in the operations efficiency, particularly when disruptions occur closer to the end of the planning horizon. The approach seems to be easily scalable and easy to extend to other sectors.

2022

Mitigating Biomass Supply Chain Uncertainty Through Discrete Event Simulation

Authors
Piqueiro, H; de Sousa, JP; Santos, R; Gomes, R;

Publication
Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management

Abstract