Application of linear programming and optimisation software in an operations consultancy problem : a costs-minimising computerised optimisation model for empty container repositioning.

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Wang, Jiali., Chen, Hazel Shijia., Tan, Desmond Zhewen.
• مؤلفون آخرون: Angelia Lu
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2012
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Business::Operations management::Inventory control
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48313
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

This paper considers the empty container repositioning problem in a multi-vessel, multi- port and multi-voyage shipping network with unbalanced customers’ demand and assumes that repositioning decisions are implemented in a rolling horizon manner. The objective is to minimise the expected total repo...