Centralized Bakery Reduces Distribution Costs Using Simulation

Ephraim Martin
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Interfaces, 1998, vol. 28, issue 4, 38-46

Abstract: To improve the efficiency of product distribution for a centralized bakery, I first performed each person's tasks and discovered that constructing optimal minimum-distance routes would not significantly reduce costs but replacing the physical validation of new routes with a manual mathematical computation or simulation would. The trick was getting management to trust the simulation enough to use it.

Keywords: transportation; vehicle routing; simulation; application (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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