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For all organizations in the manufacturing and service sectors, transportation has become an important topic for the economic decision-making process. This is due to the high quality and versatility standards that today the industries have established to follow a strict guideline focused on Just-In-Time (JIT). In this context, the present paper extends on the analysis and improvement of a real-world routing problem of a Mexican company dedicated to the manufacturing of plastic products. The value chain of the company has its origin at the gathering (picking-up) of raw materials and components from different suppliers located in the United States. Currently, a third-party company (carrier) has been hired to perform the pickup process, however there is uncertainty regarding the optimality of its routes and their associated costs. The present research analyses the current routing scheme that is performed by the carrier to verify compliance of the requirements of the company which are minimization of costs and travel times. Then, the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) is performed for improvement of the current routing scheme. In addition, a new location for a depot (or collection center) is proposed to allow the company to manage its own raw material, avoiding the need to consider a third-party company for the picking-up services by means of the p-Median Problem (PMP). Optimization for the CVRP and PMP was performed with a specialized software and the results obtained by this research present an improved cost-efficient routing scheme for the picking-up process of the plastic company.
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Diana, SP., Karen, Z., Santiago-Omar, CM., Luis, MF.J. (2017). Routing Analysis and Improvement for the Pick-up Service of Raw Material for a Company Specialized in Plastic Injection. In: Figueroa-García, J., López-Santana, E., Villa-Ramírez, J., Ferro-Escobar, R. (eds) Applied Computer Sciences in Engineering. WEA 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 742. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66963-2_47
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