This article provides a survey on the highly popular metaheuristic framework, the adaptive
large neighborhood search (ALNS). The basic concepts of ALNS are discussed in this …

The aim of this work is not only to give an up-to-date review of perishable inventory models,
but also of the joint key topics of publications from January 2012 until December 2015 in the …

Production scheduling and vehicle routing are both well-studied problems in literature. A
coordinated approach that does not solve these interrelated problems sequentially improves …

In the last 15 years, heuristics based on large neighborhood search (LNS) and the variant
adaptive large neighborhood search (ALNS) have become some of the most successful …

The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) is one of the most intensively studied combinatorial
optimisation problems for which numerous models and algorithms have been proposed. To …

Production scheduling and vehicle routing are two well-studied problems in literature.
Although these supply chain functions are interrelated, they are often solved sequentially …

Production and distribution are two essential activities in supply chain management.
Currently, integrated production and distribution problems receive much attention because …

This paper studies a joint production scheduling and outbound distribution planning
problem in which orders are processed by several machines in series with the same …

Perishable food products present a production-inventory routing dilemma critical to logistics
planning for several industries. Due to the speedy deterioration of perishable food products …

The growing concern of leading a healthy and balanced lifestyle has instigated the rise of
the global consumption of fresh fruits and vegetables. However, the overall supply chain …