Abstract
As population is increasing rapidly all over the world, the need for delivering products is being more difficult especially for conditional products (products with life time). Many Customers require conditional products to be delivered to their locations. Distribution center may have multi depots (multi store branches) instead of one depot. Every depot has limited number of vehicles to minimize cost. Capacities of these vehicles are based on two dimensions (weight and volume). Geographic information system (GIS) is used for localizing customers’ destinations. Then OD Cost Matrix is used to assign every customer destination to the least cost depot to be served from it. Finally Network analyst is used to solve the vehicle routing problem generating final route directions for every vehicle and calculating the best time for lunch break of drivers automatically. This case study is applied on Mansoura city in Egypt.
Highlights
As demands on conditional products are increasing very rapidly all over the world, the transportation of deliveries is being a hard process
Geographic information system (GIS) proved its efficiency in many applications such as transportation (GIS-T) [4], finding best route, traffic and road congestion problems [5] intelligent transportation systems (ITS), scheduling and routing school buses [6], Travelling sales man (TSP), Vehicle routing problems (VRP) as it is considered an extension of TSP [7] and supply chain management
The problem of delivering conditional products in Mansoura city in Egypt is solved based on GIS
Summary
As demands on conditional products are increasing very rapidly all over the world, the transportation of deliveries is being a hard process. Traditional ways used in delivering conditional products depending on experience of the drivers. In many situations, it is not efficient way as long as many customers requesting many products from the same depot. It is not efficient way as long as many customers requesting many products from the same depot These products have a life time and must be delivered within it. Total cost is calculated by cost of the drivers’ working hours, overtime hours and fuel cost consumptions in the transportation. GIS tools and network analyst are used to solve problem of delivering conditional products within its life time to customers located in Mansoura city in Egypt and determining the suitable time for drivers break automatically
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