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Thirty Years of Inventory Routing
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A comprehensive review of inventory-routing problem literature is provided, based on a new classification of the problem, which categorizes IRPs with respect to their structural variants and the availability of information on customer demand.Abstract:
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 has to deliver products to a number of geographically dispersed customers, subject to side constraints. It provides integrated logistics solutions by simultaneously optimizing inventory management, vehicle routing, and delivery scheduling. Some exact algorithms and several powerful metaheuristic and matheuristic approaches have been developed for this class of problems, especially in recent years. The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive review of this literature, based on a new classification of the problem. We categorize IRPs with respect to their structural variants and the availability of information on customer demand.read more
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The vehicle routing problem
TL;DR: This classification is the first to categorize the articles of the VRP literature to this level of detail and is based on an adapted version of an existing comprehensive taxonomy.
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Heuristics for multi-attribute vehicle routing problems: A survey and synthesis
TL;DR: This article takes a closer look at the concepts of 64 remarkable meta-heuristics, selected objectively for their outstanding performance on 15 classic MAVRP with different attributes, and leads to the identification of “winning strategies” in designing effective heuristics forMAVRP.
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A survey on dynamic and stochastic vehicle routing problems
TL;DR: A new classification based on the point in time where substantial computational effort for determining decisions or decision policies arises, is introduced, and a graphical representation demonstrates the strength of the reviewed approaches incorporating dynamic and stochastic information.
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Rich vehicle routing problems: From a taxonomy to a definition
TL;DR: The purpose of the paper is to provide a comprehensive and relevant taxonomy for the RVRP literature and to propose an elaborate definition of RVRPs.
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Modeling a green inventory routing problem for perishable products with horizontal collaboration
TL;DR: The results show that horizontal collaboration among the suppliers contributes to the decrease of aggregated total cost and emissions in the logistics system and a chance-constrained model for the multi-supplier IRP is presented.
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A generalized assignment heuristic for vehicle routing
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Ship Routing and Scheduling: Status and Perspectives
TL;DR: The objective of this paper is to review the current status of ship routing and scheduling and focus on literature published during the last decade, indicating both accelerating needs for and benefits from such systems.