A Practical Heuristic for Economic Truck Selection: A Case Study of Paper Wholesaler in Bangkok

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Author list: Monthatipkul, C.

Publication year: 2015

Journal: Thammasat international journal of science and technology (2586-9000)

Volume number: 20

Issue number: 3

Start page: 39

End page: 46

ISSN: 2586-9000

Abstract

This article outlines a practical heuristic for selecting trucks and allocating customer orders for daily paper distribution in Bangkok. A binary linear program was first developed. The objective function was to minimize the total rental cost subject to daily customer orders and truck capacities. Solving the model could give truck selection and order assignment for each truck simultaneously. Nevertheless, solving the proposed model was not practical because the computation runtime was too long. Thus, a practical heuristic was then proposed and used to obtain a truck selection

Keywords

Logistics Problem, Binary Linear Programming, Heuristic, Numerical Simulations