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

• Main Authors: Wang, Jiali., Chen, Hazel Shijia., Tan, Desmond Zhewen.
• 其他作者: Angelia Lu
• 格式: Final Year Project
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2012
• 主題: DRNTU::Business::Operations management::Inventory control
• 在線閱讀: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48313
• 機構: 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...