Name
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, without violating the product lifespan, the production/distribution capacity, and the delivery
time window constraints. We analyze several fundamental properties of the problem and show that these properties can lead
to a fast branch and bound search procedure for practical problems. A heuristic lower bound on the optimal solution is developed
to accelerate the search. Empirical studies on the computational effort required by the proposed search procedure comparing
to that required by CPLEX on randomly generated test cases are reported. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2008 | 10.1007/s10479-007-0272-3 | Annals OR |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
zero-inventory production and distribution problem · time windows · product lifespan · branch and bound search procedure · heuristic lower bound,lower bound,empirical study,product distribution,branch and bound,satisfiability | Truck,Branch and bound,Mathematical optimization,Heuristic,Upper and lower bounds,Search procedure,Test case,Empirical research,Mathematics | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
159 | 1 | 1572-9338 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
8 | 0.60 | 5 |
Authors | ||
3 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ronald Armstrong | 1 | 28 | 3.49 |
| Su Gao | 2 | 8 | 0.60 |
| Lei Lei | 3 | 70 | 5.02 |