A Model and Solution Method for Solving the Real-world and Complex Problem of Scheduling Visits to Customers



Título del documento: A Model and Solution Method for Solving the Real-world and Complex Problem of Scheduling Visits to Customers
Revista: Journal of applied research and technology
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000384174
ISSN: 1665-6423
Autores: 1
2
3
Instituciones: 1Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Facultad de Ingeniería, Cali, Valle del Cauca. Colombia
2Instituto Superior Politécnico "José Antonio Echeverría", Centro de Estudios de Matemática, La Habana. Cuba
3Universidad del Bío-Bío, Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, Concepción. Chile
Año:
Periodo: Jun
Volumen: 12
Número: 3
Paginación: 333-342
País: México
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Artículo
Enfoque: Experimental, aplicado
Resumen en inglés Some of the complex logistical problems faced by companies combine the needs for strategic and tactical decisions concerning the interrelated issues of clustering, scheduling, and routing. Various strategies can be used to solve these problems. We present a problem of this type, involving a company whose fundamental objective is the commercialization of its product in the domestic market. The paper focuses on a model of and method for a solution to the problem of scheduling visits to customers, taking into account the relationship with other phases of product marketing. The model is nonlinear, involves binary and continuous variables, and solved heuristically. Computational experiments show that the proposed solution performed very well for both real-life and theoretical instances
Disciplinas: Ingeniería
Palabras clave: Ingeniería industrial,
Servicio al cliente,
Usuarios,
Logística,
Calendarización,
Heurística
Keyword: Engineering,
Industrial engineering,
Client attention,
Users,
Logistics,
Scheduling,
Heuristics
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