Distribution scheduling of multi-temperature compartments delivery vehicles

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The rapid growth of perishable product supply chain requires efficient cold chain transportation of products to the end consumers that prevents temperature variation and quality degradation. This paper investigates effectiveness of the multi-compartment vehicles that are capable of joint delivery of mixed temperature products in order to replace multiple visits by traditional single temperature reefers within last mile delivery between hub and retailers. The proposed multi-compartment delivery problem is modeled as a generalization of inventory routing model. Also, a robust programming model for the multi-compartment delivery problem is developed that can protect inventory stockout caused by demand uncertainties. Proposed models are tested on the randomly generated instances that have comparable size to the previously reported computation of inventory routing problems. © 2020 ICIC International.

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