Optimal production, replenishment, delivery, routing and inventory management policies for products with perishable inventory
本文针对易腐品提出了一个广义的生产-库存-路径模型，分析了生产周期不同的产品的最优配送与销售决策，并开发了精确分支切割算法，比较了八种次优策略与最优策略的管理启示。
This paper presents a generalized production-inventory-routing model with perishable inventory. We analyze the optimal integrated decisions of when and how much to deliver and sell products with varying manufacturing periods. We discuss main inventory management policies to demonstrate the applicability of the model in real-world applications for production routing problems (PRPs) with perishable inventory. Furthermore, an exact branch-and-cut algorithm is developed and discussed. We introduce new families of logical, strengthened lot-sizing and lifted Miller–Tucker–Zemlin subtour elimination constraints for the PRP with perishable inventory. Finally, we test the performance of the algorithm. We also implement and compare 8 suboptimal delivery and selling priority policies with an optimized policy to develop managerial implications.