Investigation of feeder ships worldwide has identified South East Asian and the Caribbean as transshipment markets open to feeder ship replacement with a need for improved operational efficiency. In response to this challenge an environmentally sustainable feeder-container ship concept has been developed for the 2020 container market. The concept utilises higher speed and larger capacity than t...

A transshipment problem with demands that exceed network capacity can be solved by sending ow in several waves. How can this be done in the minimum number, T , of waves, and at minimum cost, if costs are piece-wise linear convex functions of the ow? In this paper, we show that this problem can be solved using minfm; logT; log(m U) 1+log(m U) log(mU) g maximum ow computations and one minimum (co...

Abstract Supply and distribution management of blood products is a challenging task due to their short lifespan. The problem even more sophisticated considering uncertain demand for these products. This paper addresses integrated inventory-routing in supply chain network consisting single supplier group centers. Transshipment among centers allowed decrease the cost excess inventory shortage goo...

We consider the inventory transshipment problem between two retailers that sell the same product to two independent markets. One assumption that distinguishes our work is that unsatisfied customers may also switch to the retailer with surplus inventory. We examine the impact of such customer switching behavior on firms' inventory decisions and profits. We identify situations when the firm with ...

In industrial engineering, transportation planning, vehicle routing problem, warehousing, inventory management, and customer service are logistics problems. Graph theory algorithms provide solutions to problems such as the shortest path, minimum spanning tree, a company system with branches transfer centers which affiliated, if sorting process is carried out in centers, deliveries collected fro...