Since our study embraces several related research streams, namely, supply chain management, consignment stores, and black hole optimization, we provide a brief review on each stream before to elaborate the model, algorithm, and solution.
There has recently been an increased interest in performance analysis of supply chains [1-14] and some recent analysis has been targeted specifically towards the integration of consignment stores into supply chain processes [15-21] and optimization with metaheuristics based on swarming algorithms [22-40], especially black hole optimization.