During the past decades, several joint maintenance and inventory optimization systems have been studied in literature. Compared to the sequential optimization of both models, Kabir and Al-Olayan (1996) reported a remarkable influence on total cost due to their joint optimization method. This...

The Single-Vehicle Cyclic Inventory Routing Problem (SV-CIRP) belongs to the class of Inventory Routing Problems (IRP) in which the supplier optimises both the distribution costs and the inventory costs at the customers. The goal of the SV-CIRP is to minimise both kinds of costs and to maximise...