Exact, heuristic and hybrid approaches for the inventory routing problem

• Grant number: 17/06664-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date until: June 01, 2017
• End date until: March 02, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Production Engineering - Operational Research
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Pedro Augusto Munari Junior
• Grantee: Aldair Alberto Alvarez Diaz
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências Exatas e de Tecnologia (CCET). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/07375-0 - CeMEAI - Center for Mathematical Sciences Applied to Industry, AP.CEPID
• Associated scholarship(s): 17/13739-5 - Hybrid solution methods for inventory routing problems, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

Inventory control and distribution are essential activities in the supply chain management. Given that these activities are interrelated, they must be coordinated in the best possible way in order to perform the operations efficiently and achieve an adequate operating performance. The inventory routing problem addresses these activities in a integrated way. In spite of its complexity, this problem has gained increasing interest over the last decade in both academic and industrial settings. The objective of this project is to investigate exact, heuristic and hybrid solution methods for this problem. Furthermore, additional characteristics of the problem will be considered in order to make it as realistic as possible. It is worth mentioning that, since the problem has gained attention only in the last few years, there are few exact and hybrid methods exploring the particular structure of this problem. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

ALVAREZ, ALDAIR; MUNARI, PEDRO; MORABITO, REINALDO. Iterated local search and simulated annealing algorithms for the inventory routing problem. International Transactions in Operational Research, v. 25, n. 6, p. 1785-1809, NOV 2018. (13/07375-0, 16/23366-9, 17/06664-9)

ALVAREZ, ALDAIR; CORDEAU, JEAN-FRANCOIS; JANS, RAF; MUNARI, PEDRO; MORABITO, REINALDO. Inventory routing under stochastic supply and demand {*}. OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, v. 102, JUL 2021. (17/13739-5, 17/06664-9)

ALVAREZ, ALDAIR; CORDEAU, JEAN-FRANCOIS; JANS, RAF; MUNARI, PEDRO; MORABITO, REINALDO. Formulations, branch-and-cut and a hybrid heuristic algorithm for an inventory routing problem with perishable products. European Journal of Operational Research, v. 283, n. 2, p. 511-529, JUN 1 2020. (17/13739-5, 17/06664-9)