| Article ID: | iaor1995610 |
| Country: | Switzerland |
| Volume: | 50 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 427 |
| End Page Number: | 435 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 1994 |
| Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Michelon Philippe, Gascon Viviane, Cruz Marcelo Dib |
| Keywords: | vehicle routing & scheduling |
Two supply delivery systems in a hospital are compared. In order to evaluate the number of carriers required by the new system, an operational research model has been developed and solved by the tabu search method. The results indicate that the new system is better, except on weekend days.