In this paper, we present a survey on vehicle routing problems with multiple commodities. In
most routing problems, only one commodity is explicitly considered. This may be due to the …

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 …

In vehicle routing problems (VRPs) the decisions to be taken concern the assignment of
customers to vehicles and the sequencing of the customers assigned to each vehicle …

Transportation allocates a significant proportion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to each
country, and it is one of the largest consumers of petroleum products. On the other hand …

This paper presents a new multi-objective mathematical model to address a Healthcare
Inventory Routing Problem (HIRP) for medicinal drug distribution to healthcare facilities. The …

This paper proposes a genetic algorithm (GA) for the inventory routing problem with lost
sales under a vendor-managed inventory strategy in a two-echelon supply chain comprised …

The inventory routing problem (IRP) combines inventory management and delivery route‐
planning decisions. This work presents a simheuristic approach that integrates Monte Carlo …

Vendor managed inventory aims at reducing supply chain costs by centralizing inventory
management and vehicle routing decisions. This integrated supply chain approach results in …

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 …

This paper analyzes the impacts of carbon emission regulations on the traditional inventory
routing problem (IRP). We first present the traditional IRP model, which is an inbound …