Abstract Inventory Routing Problem is a variant of the Vehicle Routing Problem that consists
of interrelated vehicle routing and inventory decisions. There is a growing interest in …

In vehicle routing problems (VRPs) the decisions to be taken concern the assignment of
customers to vehicles and the sequencing of the customers assigned to each vehicle …

Transportation allocates a significant proportion of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to each
country, and it is one of the largest consumers of petroleum products. On the other hand …

This paper presents a new multi-objective mathematical model to address a Healthcare
Inventory Routing Problem (HIRP) for medicinal drug distribution to healthcare facilities. The …

Abstract The Inventory Routing Problem has been mainly studied in recent decades under
an economic performance perspective. In this paper, we develop a multi-objective …

This paper proposes a genetic algorithm (GA) for the inventory routing problem with lost
sales under a vendor-managed inventory strategy in a two-echelon supply chain comprised …

Vendor managed inventory aims at reducing supply chain costs by centralizing inventory
management and vehicle routing decisions. This integrated supply chain approach results in …

The inventory routing problem (IRP) combines inventory management and delivery route‐
planning decisions. This work presents a simheuristic approach that integrates Monte Carlo …

Over the past decades, optimization in operations management has grown ever more
popular not only in the academic literature but also in practice. However, the problems have …

Route planning is important in transportation. Existing works focus on finding the shortest
path solution or using metrics such as safety and energy consumption to determine the …