Background: Logistics and transport, core of many business processes, are continuously optimized to improve efficiency and market competitiveness. The paper describes a modular coordination of vehicle routing and bin packing problems that enables independent instances of the problems to be...

In addressing the challenge of large-scale packing of strongly heterogeneous cargo in logistics loading, this paper proposes a three-dimensional container loading algorithm that integrates a block-building heuristic, an optimized placement strategy, and an enhanced genetic algorithm. The...

Sustainability in supply chain management addresses various challenges, from waste minimization to resource efficiency maximization. Two-dimensional cutting problems are common problems in most supply chains where small rectangular items need to be cut from large rectangular stock sheets to meet...

The distribution of passenger vehicles is a complex task and a high cost factor for automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). On the way from the production plant to the customer, vehicles travel long distances on different carriers such as ships, trains, and trucks. To save costs,...

Online 2D irregular bin packing problem (2D-OIBPP) with uncertain demands is a critical challenge in the manufacturing and assembly industry, where a robot is required to place incoming objects within a limited time to maximize overall packing density. The high demands on real-time and...

Heuristics for Vector Bin Packing (VBP) play an important role in modern distributed computing systems and other applications aimed at optimizing the usage of multidimensional resources. In this paper we perform a systematic classification of heuristics for VBP. We bring together existing VBP...

Packing problems are a type of fundamental global optimization problem with many real-world applications. In this paper, we propose a new variant of three-dimensional (3D) packing problem, called the Single Cylindrical Packing Problem with Cylindrical Items (SCPP-CI), which involves packing as...