A two-echelon inventory routing problem for perishable products. Rohmer, S. U. K., Claassen, G. D. H., & Laporte, G. Computers and Operations Research, 107:156–172, 2019.
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This paper presents a two-echelon inventory-routing problem for perishable products. Products are de- livered from a supplier to an intermediary depot, where storage may occur and from which they are delivered by smaller vehicles to the customer locations. Holding costs are incurred for storage at the de- pot. Customer availability is taken into account in the form of customer delivery patterns. The objective is to minimise the total transportation and holding costs. We formulate the problem as a mixed integer linear program and solve it by means of an adaptive large neighbourhood search metaheuristic in com- bination with the solution of a reduced formulation. Three variants of the heuristic are compared on a variety of randomly generated instances. Given the two-stage structure of the problem, computational results show the importance of taking the cost structure into account when choosing the most suitable solution approach.
@article{rohmer_two-echelon_2019,
	title = {A two-echelon inventory routing problem for perishable products},
	volume = {107},
	issn = {0305-0548},
	doi = {10.1016/j.cor.2019.03.015},
	abstract = {This paper presents a two-echelon inventory-routing problem for perishable products. Products are de- livered from a supplier to an intermediary depot, where storage may occur and from which they are delivered by smaller vehicles to the customer locations. Holding costs are incurred for storage at the de- pot. Customer availability is taken into account in the form of customer delivery patterns. The objective is to minimise the total transportation and holding costs. We formulate the problem as a mixed integer linear program and solve it by means of an adaptive large neighbourhood search metaheuristic in com- bination with the solution of a reduced formulation. Three variants of the heuristic are compared on a variety of randomly generated instances. Given the two-stage structure of the problem, computational results show the importance of taking the cost structure into account when choosing the most suitable solution approach.},
	language = {English},
	journal = {Computers and Operations Research},
	author = {Rohmer, S. U. K. and Claassen, G. D. H. and Laporte, Gilbert},
	year = {2019},
	keywords = {Adaptive large neighbourhood search, Inventory-routing, Last-mile logistics, Perishable products, Two-echelon system},
	pages = {156--172}
}

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