Vehicle routing decision support for a local retailer

One of the most challenging decisions that has to made routinely by dispatch managers at distribution centres warehousing and businesses in retail sector involves assignment delivery vehicles service customers exhibiting demand for goods subsequent routing these various back again. Perhaps surprisingly, do not always use vehicle software schedule deliveries customers, instead often relying on teams human schedulers who perform this task manually. The reason using such is usually a perception it may be difficult integrate with existing enterprise resource planning systems already use. In cases, estimates potential costs savings brought about required before department will risk significant step towards investing software. Dispatch then employ cost cost-benefit trade-off analyses. This paper contains practical case study which optimisation approach are quantified large centre South African Western Cape bid support its decision as whether or invest