IMPROVING ROUTING DECISION FOR OPTIMIZING DISTRIBUTION OF BAKERY PRODUCTS IN THE BANGKOK METROPOLITAN AREA, THAILAND

摘要：

　　This paper examines truck routing optimization for a companys distribution center (DC) that produces and distributes bakery products to 32 branch nodes located in the Bangkok Metropolitan Area, Thailand.In this company, the planners have to spend hours focusing on their manual planning with spreadsheet software.To address this issue, we developed the decision-making software by using our original approach that based on the savings algorithm which is the most widely applied in many commercial routing packages to increase the efficiency of the route assignment and especially suitable for the practical use.Through our approach, we were able to significantly reduce computing time and total cost of delivery for supporting the planners decision.

关键词： Heuristics Vehicle Routing Problem Savings Algorithm

作者: Tantikorn Pichpibul Ruengsak Kawtummachai

作者单位: Faculty of Business Administration, Panyapiwat Institute of Management, Nonthaburi 11120, Thailand

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The 11th International Conference on Industrial Management(第十一届工业管理国际会议)

会议地点: 日本

会议语种:英文

页码: 121-124

在线出版日期: 2012-08-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）