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Quantitative Modeling in Practice: Applying Optimization Techniques to a Brazilian CPG Company Distribution Network Design (Technical Note)

Journal of Operations and Supply Chain Management

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Title Quantitative Modeling in Practice: Applying Optimization Techniques to a Brazilian CPG Company Distribution Network Design (Technical Note)
 
Creator Mirapalheta, Gustavo Corrêa; Fundação Getulio Vargas - EAESP
Freitas, Flávia Junqueira de; Fundação Getulio Vargas - EAESP
 
Subject logistics, network design, optimization, quantitative modeling
 
Description This article aims presenting an example of quantitative modeling and optimization techniques application to the design of the distribution network of a consumer packaged goods company in São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Paraná states, Brazil. First, it is made a brief review of quantitative modeling techniques as they are applied in the modeling and optimization of network problems. In the second section it is depicted the company's distribution problem, which had been developed as part of a consulting project developed by EAESP/FGV's Empresa Júnior.  The model is then optimized through a series of software so the methodologies and results can be compared. The article finishes with the results that the company got from the model deployment, presenting a clear case of optimization techniques in a real world application, showing the viability of easily using such techniques in a broad range of distribution and logistics problems.DOI: 10.12660/joscmv6n2p74-93URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.12660/joscmv6n2p74-93
 
Publisher FGV EAESP
 
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Date 2013-12-23
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/joscm/article/view/14105
10.12660/joscmv6n2p74-93
 
Source Journal of Operations and Supply Chain Management; Vol 6, No 2 (2013): July - December; 74-93
Journal of Operations and Supply Chain Management; Vol 6, No 2 (2013): July - December; 74-93
1984-3046
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/joscm/article/view/14105/13856