Addressing the Sugar Crisis Supply Chain Management Problem in the Philippines via a Mixed-Integer Linear Optimization Approach

This paper seeks to address the sugar crisis supply chain management problem of the Philippines using a mixed-integer linear programming model. Despite the topic on resource scarcity being a widely taken subject in the literature, little to no research works have satisfactorily provided an objective means to allocate scarce resources. As such, the paper formulates a mixed-integer linear programming model to represent the allocation problem across multiple levels of echelons in the supply chain. Key results indicate that there may be a certain monopolistic characteristic of the allocation which happens as expected in reality.