OICC Press International Journal of Mathematical Modelling & Computations 2228-6233 3 1 2013 03 21 THE USE OF A RUNGE-KUTTA SCHEME FOR AN ODE-PDE MODEL OF SUPPLY CHAINS 43 50 EN M. A. Fariborzi Araghi Iran, Islamic Republic of S. Mamizadeh Chatghayeh Iran, Islamic Republic of Journal Article 2013 03 21 Integrating various suppliers to satisfy market demand is of great importance for e ective supply chain management. In this paper, we consider the ODE-PDE model of supply chain and apply a classical explicit fourth-order Runge-Kutta scheme for the related ODE model of suppliers. Also, the convergence of the proposed method is proved. Finally a numerical example is studied to demonstrate the accuracy of the proposed method with different choices of time and space meshes.