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An integrated production and distribution problem with direct shipment: a case from Moroccan bottled-water market

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  • Jamal Lmariouh
  • Nizar El Hachemi
  • Mohamed Anouar Jamali
  • Driss Bouami
  • Louis Martin Rousseau

Abstract

We consider an industrial application encountered in the Moroccan context that involves the production and distribution of bottled water. Our industrial partner owns one plant from which all requests are delivered in direct shipments and usually full truckloads to the customers (a set of regional depots and wholesalers). We must take into account the production, the delivery requirements, multiple products, and inventory levels. The objective is to minimise the sum of the production, transportation, and inventory costs. We propose a mixed integer linear program for a variant of the multi-vehicle, multi-product production routing problem. Experiments have been conducted using CPLEX 12.3.0, and almost all instances were solved with a reasonable optimality gap. The results show that significant savings can be obtained by using our approach with respect to the current company practice.

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  • Jamal Lmariouh & Nizar El Hachemi & Mohamed Anouar Jamali & Driss Bouami & Louis Martin Rousseau, 2019. "An integrated production and distribution problem with direct shipment: a case from Moroccan bottled-water market," International Journal of Operational Research, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 34(1), pages 144-160.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijores:v:34:y:2019:i:1:p:144-160
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    1. Simon Emde & Shohre Zehtabian & Yann Disser, 2023. "Point-to-point and milk run delivery scheduling: models, complexity results, and algorithms based on Benders decomposition," Annals of Operations Research, Springer, vol. 322(1), pages 467-496, March.
    2. Li, Chung-Lun & Li, Feng, 2020. "Rescheduling production and outbound deliveries when transportation service is disrupted," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 286(1), pages 138-148.

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