NETCHAIN is a program for the optimization of the supply chain in continuous flexible process networks.
For a given flexible process network, supply chain for sales, intermittent deliveries, production shortfalls, delivery delays, inventory profiles and job changeovers are taken into consideration. A bilevel decomposition algorithm is used involving a relaxed problem and a subproblem for the original supply chain problem according to the paper by Jin-Kwang Bok, Ignacio E. Grossmann, and Sunwon Park (2000).
Netchain has been developed by Gabriela Garcia-Ayala under the supervision of Ignacio E.Grossmann.