Low voltage switchgear products are standard products used for distribution and control of electric power in industries, farms, commercial buildings and residential homes. The products are supplied by the manufacturers through distribution channels consisting of resellers who perform a variety...

For a globalised supply chain to be responsive, the firm should have the ability to meet short lead times, respond to wide ranges of quantities demanded, handle a large variety of products, build highly innovative products and meet a very high service level. Vendor managed inventory (VMI) is one...

Public healthcare institutions in India continue to be the major source of healthcare in both rural and urban areas. This study has considered resource utilisation in the context of drug supplies to the public healthcare. Drug inventory management assessment tool (DIMAT) is developed to quantify...

Generalised assignment problem (GAP) is a well-known non-deterministic polynomial (NP) hard combinatorial optimisation problem to find the minimum cost during assignment of jobs to agents so that each job is assigned exactly once and agents are not overloaded. In this research, we look at the...

Generalised assignment problem (GAP) is a well-known non-deterministic polynomial (NP) hard combinatorial optimisation problem to find the minimum cost during assignment of jobs to agents so that each job is assigned exactly once and agents are not overloaded. In this research, we look at the...

Logistics is no longer seen as tactical and cost-driven – it is strategic. Considering the driver-on-time rules and with the perishable nature of the products, the travel length/time is one of the critical constraints in distribution logistics. We consider a typical logistics problem with...

The integrated problem of allocating and routing blood for a public and private health care system is addressed. We modelled the problem as multiple-vehicle, multi-depot, multi-criteria allocation-routing problem which is termed as integrated allocation-routing (IAR) problem. We propose a...