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. 65, No. 6, Special Issue: Sustainable Operations Management: Design Modelling and Analysis (JUNE 2014), pp. 873-887 (15 pages) With a growing ...

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 ...