Iterated Local Search Approach to a Single-Product, Multiple-Source, Inventory-Routing Problem
Federico Alonso-Pecina,
Irma Yazmín Hérnandez-Báez,
Roberto Enrique López-Díaz
et al.
Abstract:We address an inventory-routing problem that arises in a liquid oxygen-producing company. Decisions must be made for the efficient transport of the product from sources to destinations by means of a heterogeneous fleet of trucks. This combinatorial problem has been stated as a constrained minimization one, whose objective function is the quotient of the operating cost divided by the total amount of delivered product. The operating cost comes from the distances traveled, the drivers’ salary, and the drivers’ ov… Show more
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