Multi Depot Clustering and Vehicle Routing: Case Study in Cash Distribution

Journal
UTCC Engineering Research Papers
Publisher(s)
University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce
Date Issued
2012
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University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce. School of Engineering
Abstract
This research propose to decrease the transportation cost of cash distribution from three distributioncenters delivered to 4076 service points by using Cluster First – Route Second technique. Newconcept of assignment problem with time window is presented in this paper for clustering. A GroupSweep Algorithm which is modified from a traditional Sweep Algorithm combined with a nearestneighbor search is also presented as the routing methodology. Application software has developedusing PHP to interface with MySQL and AMPL with CPLEX (10.0) to friendly to used and can flexble tochange various parameters. The result shows that 11 vehicle can be reduced resulting in costreduction in a total amount of 5,852,910 Bath per year.
Subject(s)
Logistics Engineering
ISSN
1906-1625
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University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce
Bibliographic Citation
Prat Boonsam, Nanthi Suthikarnnarunai, Wanchai Rattanawong (2012) Multi Depot Clustering and Vehicle Routing: Case Study in Cash Distribution. UTCC Engineering Research Papers.
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