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Models for two-dimensional bin packing problems with customer order spread

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In this paper, we address an extension of the classical two-dimensional bin packing (2BPP) that considers the spread of customer orders (2BPP-OS). The 2BPP-OS addresses a set of rectangular items, required from different customer orders, to be cut from a set of rectangular bins. All the items of a customer order are dispatched together to the next stage of production or distribution after its completion. The objective is to minimize the number of bins used and the spread of customer orders over the cutting process. The 2BPP-OS gains relevance in manufacturing environments that seek minimum waste solutions with satisfactory levels of customer service. We propose integer linear programming (ILP) models for variants of the 2BPP-OS that consider non-guillotine, 2-stage, restricted 3-stage, and unrestricted 3-stage patterns. We are not aware of integrated approaches for the 2BPP-OS in the literature despite its relevance in practical settings. Using a general-purpose ILP solver, the results show that the 2BPP-OS takes more computational effort to solve than the 2BPP, as it has to consider several symmetries that are often disregarded by the traditional 2BPP approaches. The solutions obtained by the proposed approaches have similar bin usage and significantly better metrics of customer satisfaction concerning the approaches that neglect the customer order spread.

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The authors would like to thank the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP-Brazil) [grant numbers 2020/00747-2, 2016/01860-1] and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq-Brazil) [grant number 304144/2019-3] for the financial support. Research was carried out using the computational resources of the Center for Mathematical Sciences Applied to Industry (CeMEAI) funded by FAPESP-Brazil [grant number 2013/07375-0].

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All authors contributed to the study’s conception and design. Material preparation, data collection, and analysis were performed by Mateus Martin, Horacio Hideki Yanasse, Maristela O. Santos, and Reinaldo Morabito. The first draft of the manuscript was written by Mateus Martin and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript.

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Martin, M., Yanasse, H.H., Santos, M.O. et al. Models for two-dimensional bin packing problems with customer order spread. J Comb Optim 48, 8 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10878-024-01201-2

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