DATA ANALYSIS FOR DISPATCH SCHEDULING OPTIMIZATION IN THE PRESENCE OF TIME CONSTRAINTS

摘要

A capacity verifier accesses an inventory database and a vehicle database, based on at least one of a plurality of perishable good orders to be delivered by a plurality of delivery vehicles to a plurality of delivery sites. A dispatch schedule generator generates an initial dispatch schedule in which each of the plurality of delivery vehicles is individually scheduled for delivery to at least one of the plurality of delivery sites to define a delivery assignment, each delivery assignment being subject to an associated expiration time window for the perishable good being delivered. A dispatch schedule optimizer executes an iterative updating of an initial dispatch schedule wherein, in each iteration, at least one delivery assignment is altered and a resulting dispatch schedule is evaluated relative to associated expiration time windows, until an optimized dispatch schedule is obtained.