A zero-inventory production and distribution problem with a fixed customer sequence

A zero-inventory production and distribution problem with a fixed customer sequence

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Article ID: iaor2009953
Country: Netherlands
Volume: 159
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 395
End Page Number: 414
Publication Date: Mar 2008
Journal: Annals of Operations Research
Authors: , ,
Keywords: programming: branch and bound, inventory, heuristics, distribution, vehicle routing & scheduling
Abstract:

In this paper, we study the zero-inventory production and distribution problem with a single transporter and a fixed sequence of customers. The production facility has a limited production rate, and the delivery truck has non-negligible traveling times between locations. The order in which customers may receive deliveries is fixed. Each customer requests a delivery quantity and a time window for receiving the delivery. The lifespan of the product starts as soon as the production for a customer's order is finished, which makes the product expire in a constant time. Since the production facility and the shipping truck are limited resources, not all the customers may receive the delivery within their specified time windows and/or within product lifespan. The problem is then to choose a subset of customers from the given sequence to receive the deliveries to maximize the total demand satisfied.

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