Open AccessA Two-Stage Method to Optimize The Milk-Run System
Author(s) -
Aslı Aksoy,
Nursel Öztürk
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
european journal of engineering and technology research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2736-576X
DOI - 10.24018/ejeng.2016.1.3.152
Subject(s) - automotive industry , container (type theory) , heuristic , interval (graph theory) , computer science , integer programming , integer (computer science) , operations research , work (physics) , engineering , mathematics , algorithm , mechanical engineering , combinatorics , artificial intelligence , aerospace engineering , programming language
In this competitive manufacturing environment, material transportation is an important topic for researchers and practical applications. This study presents a real life example of an automotive equipment manufacturer problem. The manufacturer has several depots to serve 54 milk-run suppliers and complained about the fluctuations of milk-run vehicles between work days and depots. The aim of this study is to develop a systematic approach to make milk-run system more stable for manufacturer. Therefore the systematic approach which consists of, the milk-run route optimization with mixed integer linear programming model, container loading heuristic to increase the utilization of milk-run vehicles and time interval assignment heuristic to avoid coincidence of milk-run vehicles at the depots, is suggested to get over existing problems of a manufacturer.