Competitiveness based on logistic management: a real case study

Fausto García Márquez (), Isidro García Pardo () and Marta Nieto ()

Annals of Operations Research, 2015, vol. 233, issue 1, 157-169

Abstract: An efficient and effective logistic system is a strategic objective in any productive business. This paper presents a real case study of a routing problem in a food industry firm. This problem is solved as a Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) using the Neural Network (NN) and Tabu Search (TS) algorithms. A customer selection based on a profitability analysis was carried out. The aforementioned algorithms were then applied, leading to a considerable reduction in the total logistic costs. This resulted in an improvement in the company’s competitiveness and profit. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Keywords: Logistic management; Tabu search; Neural network; Vehicle routing problem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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