A Periodic Inventory Routing Problem at a Supermarket Chain

Albert Heijn, BV, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands, faces a vehicle routing and delivery scheduling problem once every three to six months. Given hourly demand forecasts for each store, travel times and distances, cost parameters, and various transportation constraints, the firm seeks to deter...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Operations research 2004-11, Vol.52 (6), p.813-822
Hauptverfasser:	Gaur, Vishal, Fisher, Marshall L
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	algorithm and implementation Algorithms Analysis application to inventory routing Case studies Chain stores Cost control Delivery schedules Delivery vehicles Distribution Distribution costs Heuristics Inventories Inventory inventory routing Logistics matchings networks Operations research OR Practice Scheduling Shipments Software Studies Supermarkets Suppliers transportation Transportation costs Truck routes Trucking Trucks Vehicle fleets vehicle routing Workloads
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