Abstract:The delivery of goods to car factories is a challenging problem. The French car manufacturer Renault is facing daily a complex truck loading problem in which various goods must be packed into a truck such that they fulfill different constraints. As trucks can deliver goods to different factories on the same tour, classes of items have been defined, where a class is associated with a delivery point. The consideration of these classes, in addition to large standard deviations, over the sizes of the items are new… Show more
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