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Route Finding For Facilitating Transportation Planning To Maintain Smooth Product Flow In Supply Chain

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  • Muhammad Ali Memon

    (University of Sindh, Pakistan)

  • Asadullah Shaikh

    (Ilma University, Pakistani)

  • Kamran Taj Pathan

    (University of Sindh, Pakistan)

  • Majid Hussain Memon

    (Quaid-e-Awam University, Nawabshah)

  • Kamran Dahri

    (University of Sindh, Pakistan)

Abstract

Purpose To gain more profit and market share, manufacturers wish to mobilize as many resources as they can to satisfy every manufacturing order.As Manufacturing is nowadays distributed to several sites, where each site manufacture the intermediate product to assemble the final product.Methodology Producers, therefore require to transport these products between these sites as well as distribute the final products to faraway customers.Therefore production and transportation planning need to be coordinated.Manufacturing requires the planning of unmovable resources machines with fixed sequences of production routing steps, however transportation requires the planning of moveable resources Vehicles.Findings Each transport request is different from another with different origin and destination.Hence, it is needed to find the routing route from origin to destination of each transport request dynamically.Practical Implications This paper is dedicated to present a route finding tool called Path Finder in order to provide shortest route by distance or time or both for transportation planning.

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  • Muhammad Ali Memon & Asadullah Shaikh & Kamran Taj Pathan & Majid Hussain Memon & Kamran Dahri, 2017. "Route Finding For Facilitating Transportation Planning To Maintain Smooth Product Flow In Supply Chain," IBT Journal of Business Studies (JBS), Ilma University, Faculty of Management Science, vol. 13(2), pages 11-21.
    • Handle: RePEc:aib:ibtjbs:v:13:y:2017:i:2:p:11-21
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.46745/ilma.ibtjbs.2017.132.2
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