Industrial aspects and literature survey: Combined inventory management and routing

Abstract

a b s t r a c tThis paper describes industrial aspects of combined inventory management and routing in maritime and road-based transportation, and gives a classification and comprehensive literature review of the current state of the research.The literature is contrasted with aspects of industrial applications from a constructive, but critical, viewpoint. Based on the status and trends within the field, future research is suggested with regard to both further development of the research area and industrial needs. By highlighting the industrial aspects, practitioners will hopefully see the benefit of using advanced decision support systems in complex situations related to combined inventory management and routing in their business. In addition, a classification and presentation of the research should help and motivate researchers to further focus on inventory management and routing challenges.

Discrete time and continuous time formulations for a short sea inventory routing problem

“…See the reviews on maritime transportation; [12,13] and [14]. Combined routing and inventory management within maritime transportation have been present in the literature the last one and a half decades only; see [6] and [10]. These problems are often called Maritime Inventory Routing Problems (MIRPs).…”

“…As discussed in both [6] and [28], most combined maritime routing and inventory management problems described in the literature have particular features and characteristics, and tailor-made methods are developed to solve the problems. These methods are often based on heuristics or decomposition techniques.…”

An Integrated Inventory-Transportation System with Periodic Pick-Ups and Leveled Replenishment

“…The idea is to simultaneously determine the quantity and timing of replenishments as well as routes. There are diverse possibilities to structure works on the IRP (Andersson, Hoff, Christiansen, Hasle, and Løkketangen 2010;Moin and Salhi 2007;Bertazzi, Savelsbergh, and Speranza 2008). For the MCP we in particular distinguish works in whether resulting plans are repeated periodically and in the way demand is modeled (deterministic/stochastic).…”

“…In analogy with vendor-managed inventory concepts, which have been widely implemented to improve distribution operations, there is currently a trend in inbound logistics of manufacturers taking responsibility for the planning of transportation operations (Baudin 2004). The objective is to make use of synergies by concentrating all replenishment and transportation decisions at a single centralized point in the supply chain (Disney, Potter, and Gardner 2003;Andersson, Hoff, Christiansen, Hasle, and Løkketangen 2010). In contrast to distribution logistics, where the divergent structure of the material flow suggests concentrating all decisions at suppliers serving multiple customers, we typically face convergent structures in inbound logistics.…”

Abordagens de otimização para um problema de roteirização e programação de navios petroleiros

“…As mentioned, no papers were found in the literature that presented models and solution methods for addressing the present operational problem of ship routing and scheduling applied to oil cabotage with the characteristics of the practical operation here considered, as described in the next section. Bibliographic review of models of inventory routing problem type integrated with inventory management, with emphasis on practical aspects of industrial applications for marine and land modes Hoff et al (2010) Continuation of the work of Andersson et al (2010), with a focus on studies that integrate routing problems with fleet composition Hennig et al (2012) pickup and delivery problem with split loads…”