Milk-run routing and scheduling subject to a trade-off between vehicle fleet size and storage capacity

IF 0.9 Q4 ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL

Management and Production Engineering Review Pub Date : 2023-11-06 DOI:10.24425/MPER.2019.12959

G. Bocewicz, W. Bożejko, R. Wójcik, Z. Banaszak

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Abstract

The objective of the milk-run design problem considered in this paper is to minimize trans- portation and inventory costs by manipulating ﬂeet size and the capacity of vehicles and storage areas. Just as in the case of an inventory routing problem, the goal is to ﬁnd a pe- riodic distribution policy with a plan on whom to serve, and how much to deliver by what ﬂeet of tugger trains travelling regularly on which routes. This problem boils down to de- termining the trade-oﬀ between ﬂeet size and storage capacity, i.e. the size of replenishment batches that can minimize ﬂeet size and storage capacity. A solution obtained in the declar- ative model of the milk-run system under discussion allows to determine the routes for each tugger train and the associated delivery times. In this context, the main contribution of the present study is the identiﬁcation of the relationship between takt time and the size of replenishment batches, which allows to determine the delivery time windows for milk- run delivery and, ultimately, the positioning of trade-oﬀ points. The results show that this relationship is non-linear.

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牛奶运输路线和调度受制于车队规模和存储容量之间的权衡

本文考虑的牛奶运输设计问题的目标是通过控制车队规模、车辆容量和存储区域来最小化运输和库存成本。就像库存路线问题一样，目标是找到一种定期分配策略，该策略计划为谁服务，以及由哪一组拖轮列车在哪条路线上定期行驶，交付多少货物。这个问题归结为确定车队规模和存储容量之间的权衡，即可以最小化车队规模和存储容量的补货批次的大小。在讨论中的牛奶运输系统的声明式模型中得到的解决方案允许确定每个牵引列车的路线和相关的交付时间。在这种情况下，本研究的主要贡献是确定了所需时间和补充批次大小之间的关系，从而确定了牛奶运行交付的交付时间窗口，并最终确定了权衡点的定位。结果表明，这种关系是非线性的。

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Management and Production Engineering Review ENGINEERING, INDUSTRIAL-

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期刊介绍： Management and Production Engineering Review (MPER) is a peer-refereed, international, multidisciplinary journal covering a broad spectrum of topics in production engineering and management. Production engineering is a currently developing stream of science encompassing planning, design, implementation and management of production and logistic systems. Orientation towards human resources factor differentiates production engineering from other technical disciplines. The journal aims to advance the theoretical and applied knowledge of this rapidly evolving field, with a special focus on production management, organisation of production processes, management of production knowledge, computer integrated management of production flow, enterprise effectiveness, maintainability and sustainable manufacturing, productivity and organisation, forecasting, modelling and simulation, decision making systems, project management, innovation management and technology transfer, quality engineering and safety at work, supply chain optimization and logistics. Management and Production Engineering Review is published under the auspices of the Polish Academy of Sciences Committee on Production Engineering and Polish Association for Production Management.