TY - JOUR
T1 - The inventory routing problem under uncertainty with perishable products
T2 - an application in the agri-food supply chain
AU - Violi, Antonio
AU - Laganá, Demetrio
AU - Paradiso, Rosario
PY - 2020/9/1
Y1 - 2020/9/1
N2 - In this paper, we propose a dynamic and stochastic approach for an inventory routing problem in which products with a high perishability must be delivered from a supplier to a set of customers. This problem falls within the agri-food supply chain (ASC) management field, which includes all the activities from production to distribution. The need for high-quality products that are subject to perishability is a critical issue to consider in the ASC optimization. Moreover, the demand uncertainty makes the problem very challenging. In order to effectively manage all these features, a rolling horizon approach based on a multistage stochastic linear program is proposed. Computational experiments over medium-size instances designed on the basis of the real data provided by an agri-food company operating in Southern Italy show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
AB - In this paper, we propose a dynamic and stochastic approach for an inventory routing problem in which products with a high perishability must be delivered from a supplier to a set of customers. This problem falls within the agri-food supply chain (ASC) management field, which includes all the activities from production to distribution. The need for high-quality products that are subject to perishability is a critical issue to consider in the ASC optimization. Moreover, the demand uncertainty makes the problem very challenging. In order to effectively manage all these features, a rolling horizon approach based on a multistage stochastic linear program is proposed. Computational experiments over medium-size instances designed on the basis of the real data provided by an agri-food company operating in Southern Italy show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
KW - Agri-food inventory routing
KW - Risk measure
KW - Rolling horizon
KW - Stochastic programming
KW - Supply chain management
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U2 - 10.1007/s00500-019-04497-z
DO - 10.1007/s00500-019-04497-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85075170841
VL - 24
SP - 13725
EP - 13740
JO - Soft Computing
JF - Soft Computing
SN - 1432-7643
IS - 18
ER -