Inventory Routing Problems: Mathematical Models and Heuristics - Tapa blanda

Ramkumar, N.; Narendran, T.T.

 
9783659204999: Inventory Routing Problems: Mathematical Models and Heuristics
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ISBN 10: 3659204994 ISBN 13: 9783659204999
Editorial: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Sinopsis

Shippers are emphasizing logistics, since networking has become complex due to the globalization and demand variability has become huge for various products across countries. In order to meet customer demands, vendors must ensure appropriate quantities of storages at the point of demand and must ensure optimal distribution plans that include routing of the distribution vehicles. Managing such complex logistic networks, with high level of customization and services expected by customers, require various strategies to keep the transportation and inventory costs low. This requirement has evolved as the Inventory Routing Problem (IRP) which focuses on timing of deliveries, sizes of shipments and routing of vehicles. With the objective of enabling logistics planners to determine the distribution quantities and routing schedules to warehouses, few prominent variants of the inventory routing problems are addressed. The proposed mathematical models and heuristic approaches can assist planners in logistic decisions at operational level. These approaches will be useful in Oil industries, Retail industries, Blood banks, Automobile Industries and Vendor managed inventory systems.

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Reseña del editor

Shippers are emphasizing logistics, since networking has become complex due to the globalization and demand variability has become huge for various products across countries. In order to meet customer demands, vendors must ensure appropriate quantities of storages at the point of demand and must ensure optimal distribution plans that include routing of the distribution vehicles. Managing such complex logistic networks, with high level of customization and services expected by customers, require various strategies to keep the transportation and inventory costs low. This requirement has evolved as the Inventory Routing Problem (IRP) which focuses on timing of deliveries, sizes of shipments and routing of vehicles. With the objective of enabling logistics planners to determine the distribution quantities and routing schedules to warehouses, few prominent variants of the inventory routing problems are addressed. The proposed mathematical models and heuristic approaches can assist planners in logistic decisions at operational level. These approaches will be useful in Oil industries, Retail industries, Blood banks, Automobile Industries and Vendor managed inventory systems.

Biografía del autor

N. Ramkumar works at JDA Software India Pvt Ltd. He holds a Masters degree (MS Research) from Department of Management Studies, I.I.T Madras, Chennai, India. Dr.T.T.Narendran is a Professor at Department of Management Studies, I.I.T Madras, Chennai, India. He has published several papers in leading International journals.

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Editorial
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
3659204994
ISBN 13 
9783659204999
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Número de páginas
124
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