The inventory-routing problem (IRP) dates back 30 years. It can be described as the
combination of vehicle-routing and inventory management problems, in which a supplier …

Over the last years, several variants of multi-constrained Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs)
have been studied, forming a class of problems known as Rich Vehicle Routing Problems …

In the e‐commerce era, vendors have to satisfy a large number of on‐line orders, mainly
from private customers, with low weight and volume, reduced delivery time, and overlap of …

In this paper we analyze the optimal joint decisions of when, how and how much to
replenish customers with products of varying ages. We discuss the main features of the …

We consider the problem of inventory routing in the context of perishable products and find
near-optimal replenishment scheduling and vehicle routes when the objective is to …

In this paper we present a model of inventory routing problem with transshipment in the
presence of a single perishable product. In this problem, vehicle routing and inventory …

The inventory-routing problem (IRP) integrates two well-studied problems, namely, inventory
management and vehicle routing. Given a set of customers to service over a multiperiod …

In this paper, we address the electric vehicle routing problem with time windows and
propose two branch-and-price-and-cut methods based on a column generation algorithm …

An increasing number of companies focus on customer satisfaction to increase the lifetime
value of each customer. In vehicle routing, customer satisfaction is often a result of …

Inventory-routing problems (IRP) combine inventory control and vehicle routing, effectively
optimizing inventory and replenishment decisions over several periods at a centralized …