The warehouse-inventory-transportation problem for supply chains

Sainathuni, Bhanuteja; Parikh, Pratik; Zhang, Xinhui; Kong, Nan

doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2014.02.007

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“…Adulyasak et al [13] introduced multivehicle production routing problem and inventory routing problem formulations, with and without a vehicle index, to solve these problems under both the maximum level and the order-upto level inventory replenishment policies. To minimize the total distribution cost, Sainathuni et al [14] introduced the warehouse inventory transportation problem of determining an optimal distribution plan from vendors to customers via one or more warehouses.…”

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Optimization of Vehicle Routing with Pickup Based on Multibatch Production

2018

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

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To reduce the inventory cost and ensure product quality while meeting the diverse demands of customers, manufacturers yield products in batches. However, the raw materials required for manufacturing need to be obtained from suppliers in advance, making it necessary to understand beforehand how to best structure the pickup routes so as to reduce the cost of picking up and stocking while also ensuring the supply of raw materials required for each batch of production. To reduce the transportation and inventory costs, therefore, this paper establishes a mixed integer programming model for the joint optimization of multibatch production and vehicle routing problems involving a pickup. Following this, a two-stage hybrid heuristic algorithm is proposed to solve this model. In the first stage, an integrated algorithm, combining the Clarke-Wright (CW) algorithm and the Record to Record (RTR) travel algorithm, was used to solve vehicle routing problem. In the second stage, the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm was used to allocate vehicles to each production batch. Multiple sets of numerical experiments were then performed to validate the effectiveness of the proposed model and the performance efficiency of the two-stage hybrid heuristic algorithm.

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Optimization of Vehicle Routing with Pickup Based on Multibatch Production

2018

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

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“…In many academic papers, as well as in many statements of the business specialists on logistics, one can find an opinion that warehousing is nearly the main indicator measuring the inefficiency of supply chains [1,2]. The assessment and optimization criteria usually include stock sizes as negative values, the just-in-time principle is ablolutisated, the presence of stocks in delivery channels is criticized and elimination of these stocks serves as a top objective of the supply chain structure's optimization [3,4,5]. Main methodological reason behind this perception is in the significant difference between the objects and subjects of the two disciplines, logistics and transportation logistics.…”

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Methodological Problems of Modern Transportation Logistics

Kuznetsov¹,

Kirichenko²

2018

TransNav

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The terminology and conceptual apparatus of modern logistics as a scientific discipline is far from being shaped. Researches and developers of legislative and norm-setting documents are obliged to use their own or barrowed terminology, in both case not shared ubiquitously. Consequently, the interpretations even of basic concepts differ significantly. In particular, there exists an academic and practical point of view that refuse the right for existence of the term "transportation logistics". This clause is explained by the proclaimed omnipresence and universality of logistics, which has in its operational glossary the term "transportation", treated as a local, subordinated and thus secondary function. This paper tries to set a decisive rule to distinguish between general logistics and transportation logistics, arguing that these two disciplines are well separated by the objects and methodology, knowledge and activities. In transportation logistics defined this way the authors examine two principal components of the transportation processes, storage (warehousing) and movement (shipping). This consideration lead to conclusions that the classical mathematical toolkit is not fitted for the design and management of modern global supply chains. http://www.transnav.eu the International Journal on Marine Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation Volume 12 Number 3

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“…We utilize a cost structure proposed in Sainathuni et al (2014), which is composed of a fixed cost of a shipment and variable costs based on both distance (between source and destination) and weight of the shipment.…”

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