Journal article
Route design for lean production systems
Transportation science, Vol.42(3), pp.352-370
08/01/2008
DOI: 10.1287/trsc.1070.0222
Abstract
We consider the problem of routing a fleet of vehicles to pick up components from a network of suppliers and to deliver them to a fixed depot in a lean production system. The pursuit of low work-in-process inventory and production smoothing throughout the system introduces complicating side constraints, creating an enriched case of the vehicle routing problem with time windows and split deliveries. We present a two-phase routing and scheduling approach to address this problem. The routing phase consists of a nested tabu search heuristic that iterates between determining the suppliers' visit frequencies and developing vehicle routes. Given a routing plan, the scheduling phase determines the timing of supplier visits using a binary integer program designed to promote production leveling. Through computational testing on real-world data sets, we compare our solutions to those in the literature and those used by practitioners in the industry.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Route design for lean production systems
- Creators
- Jeffrey W. Ohlmann - University of IowaMichael J. Fry - University of CincinnatiBarrett W. Thomas - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Transportation science, Vol.42(3), pp.352-370
- Publisher
- Informs
- DOI
- 10.1287/trsc.1070.0222
- ISSN
- 0041-1655
- eISSN
- 1526-5447
- Number of pages
- 19
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/01/2008
- Academic Unit
- Bus Admin College; Business Analytics
- Record Identifier
- 9984380483702771
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