This paper introduces a green inventory routing problem with a heterogeneous fleet which extends the conventional inventory routing problem by considering environmental impacts and heterogeneous vehicles. A comprehensive objective is proposed, which minimizes the sum of inventory cost and routing cost, where the latter includes driver wage, vehicle fixed cost, fuel and emission costs, in which ...

The freshness of perishable products, in addition to other economic aspects such as production, inventory, and transportation management, is one the main challenges food supply chains. Therefore, integration routing decisions essential. In this study, a new production model for products with uncertain demand presented. aim minimize costs routing, wasted penalties non-fresh products. more applic...

This paper studies the cyclic inventory routing problem with stochastic demand. A geographically dispersed set of retailers demand rates is replenished from a single depot using vehicles limited capacity. For an infinite horizon, fixed-partition policy adopted that partitions into subsets are always together in same route being cyclically repeated. The objective to provide cost efficient buffer...

The integrated production, inventory and distribution routing problem (PDRP) is concerned with coordinating the production, inventory and delivery operations to meet customer demand with an objective to minimize the cost. The particular PDRP that we consider in this study also involves heterogeneous transporters with non-instantaneous traveling times and many customer demand centers each with i...