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Logistics Planning in the Context of Sustainable Development

Authors: Chocholáč Jan | Kučera Tomáš | Sommerauerová Dana | Dastych David | Trpišovský Martin

Year: 2017

Type of publication: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Page from-to: nestránkováno

Titles:

Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
eng	Logistics Planning in the Context of Sustainable Development	Supply chain management of the retail food chain is very unique, because network of the retail food chain is huge and there are many constraints for distribution of goods, for example time window of central warehouses and stores, distribution of perishable goods, more deliveries within the same day or distribution of objects of reverse logistics from stores to central warehouses. A lot of companies are using planning tools based on the subjective opinion now. This procedure is not enough effective. Poster describes a diagram of the flows between stores and suppliers of one retail food chain in the Czech Republic which has almost 350 stores. The aim of this case study is to find an effective and optimal solution for this type of exercise with usage of adequate planning tools that will be respected all defined constraints. This type of exercise is named Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and it belongs to the graph theory.	supply chain management; retail food chain; distribution; graph theory; vehicle routing problem with time windows

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