Bringing together Lean and simulation: a comprehensive review

A Goienetxea Uriarte, AHC Ng… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Lean is and will still be one of the most popular management philosophies in the Industry
4.0 context and simulation is one of its key technologies. Many authors discuss about the …

Optimizing automotive inbound logistics: A mixed-integer linear programming approach

R Baller, P Fontaine, S Minner, Z Lai - Transportation Research Part E …, 2022 - Elsevier
The optimization of inbound logistics from first-tier suppliers at the aggregation level of a
factory is a challenging coordination problem. In practice, different transport modes and …

Upward scalable vehicle routing problem of automobile inbound logistics with pickup flexibility

M Jia, F Chen - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Motivated by the inbound logistics of a famous automobile manufacturing company, we
introduce the upward scalable vehicle routing problem (for order pickup) with time windows …

Integrating IVFRN-BWM and goal programming to allocate the order quantity considering discount for green supplier

P Liu, A Hendalianpour, M Fakhrabadi… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
One of the serious supply chain management (SCM) challenges is the effective selection of
suppliers and the right allocation of orders to achieve an SCM's suitable financial and …

A Novel Approach for Optimizing the Supply Chain: A Heuristic‐Based Hybrid Algorithm

Y Kocaoglu, E Cakmak, B Kocaoglu… - Mathematical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Managing the distribution of goods is a vital operation for many companies. A successful
distribution system requires an effective distribution strategy selection and optimum route …

Point-to-point and milk run delivery scheduling: models, complexity results, and algorithms based on Benders decomposition

S Emde, S Zehtabian, Y Disser - Annals of Operations Research, 2023 - Springer
We consider the problem of scheduling a set of direct deliveries between a depot and
multiple customers using a given heterogeneous truck fleet. The trips have time windows …

[HTML][HTML] Optimization of Hub-Based Milkrun Supply

T Bányai - Logistics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Background: Milkrun-based material supply plays an important role in the automotive
industry, as it is a material supply concept where high efficiency can be achieved. When …

Branch-cut-and-price for scheduling deliveries with time windows in a direct shipping network

T Gschwind, S Irnich, C Tilk, S Emde - Journal of Scheduling, 2020 - Springer
In a direct shipping (or point-to-point) network, individual deliveries are round trips from one
supplier to one customer and back to either the same or another supplier, ie, a truck can visit …

An integer mathematical model proposal for an agile external milkrun system

İ Erozan, İA Acer - … Journal of Systems Science: Operations & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
A milkrun system is a cyclical material delivery system that enables frequent small-batch
deliveries with short lead times and low inventories. The literature classifies milkrun systems …

Plant location factors: a field research

P Chatzoglou, D Chatzoudes, Z Petrakopoulou… - Opsearch, 2018 - Springer
Selecting the appropriate plant location is among the most important decisions a company
will ever make. The present study examines the criteria affecting investors' decisions …