A lean thinking and simulation-based approach for the improvement of routing operations

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 903-925

  Villarreal, Bernardo ^a   Garza Reyes, Jose Arturo ^b   Kumar, Vikas ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTERREY   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lean routing; Transportation efficiency; Transportation waste elimination; Value stream map; Vehicle routing problem

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; SOLID WASTES; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLES;

LEAN ROUTING; TRANSPORTATION EFFICIENCY; VALUE STREAM MAPS; VEHICLE ROUTING PROBLEMS; WASTE ELIMINATIONS;

VEHICLE PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84971377487     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IMDS-09-2015-0385     Document Type: Article

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