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Research on Medicine Distribution Route Optimization for Community Health Service Institutions

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  • Zhao Li
  • Zhiqiang Ma
  • Wei Shi
  • Xianggen Qian

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At present, the optimization of medicine distribution route has become an urgent issue that needs to be solved in the unified medicine distribution for community health service institutions. Considering the characteristics of medicine distribution for community health service institutions, to minimize the overall cost (including refrigeration storage cost, vehicle fixed cost, and transportation cost) of medicine distribution in a certain region, a transport-distance-constrained local community medicine distribution route optimizing model is established. Then, a tabu-search-based algorithm originated from client direct arrangement ideology is put forward and MATLAB language is used to simulate the medicine distribution procedure. The simulated results show that the proposed algorithm is capable of obtaining an optimum distribution scheme cost with minimum transportation cost.

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  • Zhao Li & Zhiqiang Ma & Wei Shi & Xianggen Qian, 2016. "Research on Medicine Distribution Route Optimization for Community Health Service Institutions," Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi, vol. 2016, pages 1-7, May.
  • Handle: RePEc:hin:jnlmpe:6153898
    DOI: 10.1155/2016/6153898
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