In many contexts, logistics is used to enable competitive advantages and cost savings. For some companies, logistics itself is its core competency (i.e. logistics providers). In this context, vendor-managed inventory (VMI) systems are one of the most up-to-date strategies allowing companies to reach a superior performance. Under a VMI strategy, the replenishment and distribution making process ...

In warehouses, storage replenishment operations involve the transportation of items to capacitated item slots in forward area from reserve storage. These are later picked these as demand arises. While order picking constitutes majority warehouse operating costs, efficient management is important ensure availability for and decrease costs due replenishment, which might be particularly higher war...

Generally, the inventory routing problem occurs in a supply chain where customers consider the supplier responsible for inventory replenishment. In this situation, the supplier finds the answer to questions regarding the time and quantity of delivery to the customer as well as the sequence of customers in the routes. Considering the effect of production decisions on answering these questions, t...

Abstract In the Inventory Routing Problem, customer demand is satisfied from inventory which replenished with capacitated vehicles. The objective to minimize total routing and holding cost over a time horizon. If customers are located relatively close each other, one has opportunity satisfy of by stored at another nearby customer. optimization replenishments, this option can be included lower c...

one of methods of improvement of the material flow is cross docking that in is considered as a good method to reduce inventory and improve customer satisfaction. too, the vehicle routing problem is one of the important problems in distribution management and its goal is to find paths for delivering various cargos. therefore, this study was conducted in order to vehicle routing problem with cros...