Optimal production, replenishment, delivery, routing and inventory management policies for products with perishable inventory

Yuzhuo Qiu, Jun Qiao and Panos M. Pardalos

Omega, 2019, vol. 82, issue C, 193-204

Abstract: This paper presents a generalized production-inventory-routing model with perishable inventory. We analyze the optimal integrated decisions of when and how much to deliver and sell products with varying manufacturing periods. We discuss main inventory management policies to demonstrate the applicability of the model in real-world applications for production routing problems (PRPs) with perishable inventory. Furthermore, an exact branch-and-cut algorithm is developed and discussed. We introduce new families of logical, strengthened lot-sizing and lifted Miller–Tucker–Zemlin subtour elimination constraints for the PRP with perishable inventory. Finally, we test the performance of the algorithm. We also implement and compare 8 suboptimal delivery and selling priority policies with an optimized policy to develop managerial implications.

Keywords: Routing; Production planning; Branch-and-cut; Strengthened lot-sizing inequalities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.omega.2018.01.006

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