| Article ID: | iaor19991320 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 28 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 38 |
| End Page Number: | 46 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1998 |
| Journal: | Interfaces |
| Authors: | Martin Ephraim |
| Keywords: | vehicle routing & scheduling, simulation: applications |
To improve the efficiency of product distribution for a centralized bakery, I first performed each person's tasks and discovered that constructing optimal minimum-distance routes would not significantly reduce costs but replacing the physical validation of new routes with a manual mathematical computation or simulation would. The trick was getting management to trust the simulation enough to use it.