Variable neighborhood search for the inventory routing and scheduling problem in a supply chain.
Shu-Chu LiuAn-Zuo ChenPublished in: Expert Syst. Appl. (2012)
Keyphrases
- supply chain
- variable neighborhood search
- inventory routing
- scheduling problem
- tabu search
- linear program
- single machine scheduling problem
- single machine
- metaheuristic
- supply chain management
- np hard
- processing times
- precedence constraints
- flowshop
- traveling salesman problem
- heuristic methods
- feasible solution
- vehicle routing problem
- search procedure
- memetic algorithm
- lead time
- simulated annealing
- job shop scheduling problem
- bullwhip effect
- hybrid algorithm
- routing problem
- decision making
- linear programming
- parallel machines
- hybrid method
- minimum spanning tree
- search algorithm
- ant colony optimization
- optimal solution
- special case
- computational complexity