Analysis and improvement of the product delivery system of a beer producer in Ankara

Analysis and improvement of the product delivery system of a beer producer in Ankara

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Article ID: iaor2005938
Country: United Kingdom
Volume: 55
Issue: 11
Start Page Number: 1137
End Page Number: 1144
Publication Date: Nov 2004
Journal: Journal of the Operational Research Society
Authors: , ,
Keywords: Turkey, geographical information systems
Abstract:

We outline our analysis of the product delivery system of a major beer producer in Ankara, Turkey. We demonstrate a savings potential of up to 25% of distribution costs from the implementation of a number of suggested improvements, most notably that of reducing the number of weekly deliveries to a portion of the customers, and of constructing a geographical partitioning of the city that ensures a balanced distribution of the delivery workload over the days of the week. A geographic information system (GIS) is used to extract coordinate and distance information to be used in the partitioning and sequencing problem. A discussion of the difficulties involved in implementing a GIS project in Turkey is included.

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