Journal
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART E-LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION REVIEW
Volume 94, Issue -, Pages 26-43Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.tre.2016.07.006
Keywords
Routing; Milk collection; Different qualities of milk
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- Institute of Complex Engineering Systems [ICM-MIDEPLAN P-05-004-F, CONICYT FBO16]
- [FONDECYT 1130265]
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A milk collection problem with blending is introduced. A firm collects milk from farms, and each farm produces one out of three possible qualities of milk. The revenue increases with quality, and there is a minimum requirement at the plant for each quality. Different qualities of milk can be blended in the trucks, reducing revenues, but also transportation costs, resulting in higher profit. A mixed integer-programming model, a new cut, and a branch and -cut algorithm are proposed to solve medium-sized instances. A three-stage heuristic is designed for large instances. Computational experience for test instances and a large-sized real case is presented. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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