A Hierarchical Approach to Managing Dairy Routing

Belarmino Adenso-Díaz, Mónica González and Emérita García
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Belarmino Adenso-Díaz: ETS Ingenieros Industriales, Universidad de Oviedo, Campus de Viesques 33204 Gijón, Spain
Mónica González: ETS Ingenieros Industriales, Universidad de Oviedo, Campus de Viesques 33204 Gijón, Spain
Emérita García: Departamento de Logística, Central Lechera Asturiana, Granda-Siero, Asturias, Spain

Interfaces, 1998, vol. 28, issue 2, 21-31

Abstract: We designed and implemented a decision support system to organize the delivery network for the products of a large dairy. To deal with this complex problem, we employed a five-level hierarchic structure distributing the clients among the sales promoters in the levels of greater aggregation and assigning shops to individual drivers in the level with the greatest detail, which corresponds to a version of the traveling salesman problem with time windows. We implemented the model on a microcomputer, importing the necessary data from the company mainframe.

Keywords: decision analysis; applications; industries; agriculture/food (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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