La División Académica de Ingeniería y el Departamento Académico de Ingeniería Industrial y Operaciones los invitan a la Conferencia "A STRATEGY TO MANAGE THE SUPPLY CHAINS OF MULTIPLE OIL COMPANIES THAT SHARE DISTRIBUTION FACILITIES" impartid ia por el Dr. Rafael B. Carmona Benitez, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, Universidad Anáhuac México.

Abstract​

The development of the global economy is highly dependent on energy. The oil industry is one of the fossil fuel industries with fast growth and generates millions of jobs, infrastructure, and economic grow through a global supply chain. The study of oil supply chain is very important of any country in the world, who must set out public policies to develop the energy sector by enhancing oil companies to design strategies to achieve advantages against competitors and reduce gasoline prices to consumers. With this purpose, among others, in 2013, the Mexican government enact the 2013 Mexican Constitutional Reform, seeking to cut gasoline prices by setting out public policies that develop the energy sector. However, in this study, a MINLP model is designed to simulate a multi- product pipeline inventory-transport problem with stochastic demand and variable lead time to analyze and validate if the result of the fulfillment of these obligations reduce supply chain costs of all the companies that share pipelines and storage facilities to distribute multiple types of gasolines. The MINLP is applied to simulate a small network of Mexico ́s gasoline supply chain as a study case. It is possible because the MINLP is capable to optimize distribution facilities when these are used by one or more than one oil company, and a global optimum solution methodology is developed to assure optimality. The result indicates that operations cost increase rather than decrease, because a supply chain problem is created when oil companies share pipelines and storage terminals to distribute different types of gasolines simultaneously. Consequently, the reform cannot achieve its main objective of lowing prices when distribution costs increase.

Bio:

Doctor en Ingeniería de Transporte y Logística (Investigación de Operaciones) por TUDELFT, Los países Bajos. Maestría por la Universidad de Birmingham, Inglaterra. Ingeniero Industrial por el ITAM. Miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores nivel 1 y Editor Asociado del Journal of Applied Research and Technology en el área de Ingeniería Industrial.