The Multi-Vehicle Cycle Inventory Routing Problem: Formulation and a metaheuristic approach

• Main Authors: YU, Vincent F., WIDJAJA, Audrey Tedja, GUNAWAN, Aldy, VANSTEENWEGEN, Pieter
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: multi-vehicle; cyclic inventory routing problem; simulated annealing; Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering; Theory and Algorithms
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/6041; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/7044/viewcontent/multi_vehicle_cycle_inv_2021_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper presents a new variant of the Multi-Vehicle Cyclic Inventory Routing Problem (MV-CIRP) which aims to determine a subset of customers to be visited, the appropriate number of vehicles used, and the corresponding cycle time and route sequence, such that the total cost (e.g. transportation,...