Abstract Inventory Routing Problem is a variant of the Vehicle Routing Problem that consists
of interrelated vehicle routing and inventory decisions. There is a growing interest in …

Increasing concerns on energy use, emissions and food waste requires advanced models
for food logistics management. Our interest in this study is to analyse the benefits of …

While the joint optimization of production and outbound distribution decisions in a
manufacturing context have been intensively studied in the past decade, the integration of …

Efficient inbound networks in the European automotive industry rely on a set of different
transport concepts including milk runs-understood as regularly scheduled pickup tours. The …

We study an inbound inventory routing problem concerned with the minimal-cost collection
of distinct components from a network of suppliers and subsequent delivery to a …

Sugar mills in Brazil represent significant capital investments. To maintain appropriate
returns on their investment, sugar companies seek to run the mills at capacity over the entire …

To meet the optimization requirements of many-to-one assembly systems comprising a plant
and multiple suppliers, the multi-product assembly routing problem with time windows …

In a manufacturing system, a just-in-time (JIT) procurement and supply system is important
for reducing cost and responding to customer's requirement quickly. Successful …

Purpose–In transportation and distribution systems, the shipment decisions, fleet capacity,
and storage capacity are interrelated in a complex way, especially when the authors take …

We consider an integrated planning problem that combines production, inventory and
inbound transportation decisions in a context where several suppliers each provide a subset …