NETWORK FLOW ANALYSIS AS A METHOD OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT OPTIMIZATION

Abstract

The paper considers several methods of analyzing opportunities for optimizing supply chains. An iterative method of finding the optimal structure is proposed, considering the power of the supply chain links and the capacity of the paths between them. The theorem on the value of the maximum flow in the combined path is proved. A numerical simulation of the operation of the proposed algorithm for finding directions for the optimization of the network structure was performed.