Inventory Routing Problems (IRPs) represent a critical intersection of inventory management and transportation optimisation within supply chain management. At their core, IRPs require the simultaneous ...

The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 66, No. 9 (SEPTEMBER 2015), pp. 1430-1441 (12 pages) In the multi-depot vehicle routing problem (MDVRP), there are several depots where vehicles ...

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This note introduces a refinement to a previously proposed tabu search algorithm for vehicle routing problems with time windows. This refinement yields new best known solutions on a set of benchmark ...