Performance of Truck Assignment and Routing Algorithm

摘要

Competitiveness of a supply chains depends significantly on distribution center operations because it determinesresponsiveness and timeliness of deliveries to customers. This paper proposes a control algorithm for routingmultiple out-bound trucks to customers spread over a wide geographical area, each occupying different volume in atruck, and having a different delivery time-window. Overall operations are also constrained by geographicallocations of the customers in various zones and dissimilar truck capacities. Performance of the algorithm is testedusing data from a distribution center located in Latin America.