CLARKE AND WRIGHT SAVING ALGORITHM AS A MEANS OF DI STRIBUTION STREAMLINING IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF A CONCRETE COMPANY

Martin Straka, Radim Lenort, Petr Besta
2015 Acta Logistica  
Reducing costs forces of companies to look for reserves also in field of management, support and implementation of material flow. This is connected with the optimization of costs for product distribution, which forms a significant part of the total cost of the company. In practice, it happens that making plans for distribution of materials within a distribution space is left solely to the implementers of distribution and it drivers of vehicles. As a result is uneconomic material distribution
more » ... unnecessary cost increases to his distribution. The objective of the paper is to propose a methodology for optimization of transport planning from DC Prešov to the individual Tesco units within the region that comes under this distribution centre. The methodology is based on the Clarke and Wright saving algorithm.
doi:10.22306/al.v2i1.31 fatcat:ix4c3ypwpfhgnbmcrfenbj3mey