Planning Material Handling Vehicle Routes for Internal Just-In-Time Operations

1999-01-3360

09/28/1999

Event
Southern Automotive Manufacturing Conference & Exposition
Authors Abstract
Content
The problem of supplying JIT assembly workstations from a central depot with a goal of minimizing inventory and vehicle requirements is the focus of this paper. To minimize work-in-process inventory, the quantity of component parts delivered to each workstation must be just enough to satisfy production until the next delivery of components. To minimize vehicle requirements, there should be no vehicle idle time. The problem is modeled as a vehicle routing problem with a nonlinear capacity constraint. A heuristic solution procedure is outlined and a relaxed formulation is given to provide a lower bound on the number of vehicles required.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/1999-01-3360
Pages
8
Citation
Vaidyanathan, B., Miller, D., and Matson, J., "Planning Material Handling Vehicle Routes for Internal Just-In-Time Operations," SAE Technical Paper 1999-01-3360, 1999, https://doi.org/10.4271/1999-01-3360.
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Published
Sep 28, 1999
Product Code
1999-01-3360
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English