Solving continuous replenishment inventory routing problems

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dc.contributor.advisorHerrmann, Jeffreyen_US
dc.contributor.authorFomundam, Samuelen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMechanical Engineeringen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-10-11T05:52:28Z
dc.date.available2008-10-11T05:52:28Z
dc.date.issued2008-08-22en_US
dc.description.abstractThis research investigates the problem of resupplying points of dispensing (PODs), which will dispense medications to millions of people in case of a bioterrorist attack such as anthrax. After receiving an initial but limited supply of medication, the PODs will operate continuously. Vehicles will resupply the PODs continuously from a central depot that has a stockpile of medication. Each vehicle will repeatedly follow the same route and will deliver at each POD enough medication to replace what was consumed since the last visit. Because the number of drivers and trucks may be limited during an emergency, we wish to minimize the number of vehicles used to resupply the PODs. This thesis presents heuristics and a branch-and-bound approach for solving this NP-hard problem and evaluates their performance. We also analyze a special case in which all of the PODs have the same demand.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/8601
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHealth Sciences, Public Healthen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledOperations Researchen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledOperations Researchen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledpublic health emergency preparednessen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledbioterrorismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledhomeland securityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledinventory routing problemen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcombinatorial optimizationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledrouting heuristicsen_US
dc.titleSolving continuous replenishment inventory routing problemsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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