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Vehicle routing problem and its practical application in trade companies

The main aim of this paper is to investigate the logistic system of a trading company with special emphasis on the external transport subsystem, i.e. solving the vehicle routing problems on the distribution network. Vehicle routing is one of the most important operating decisions to be made by trading company managers. The problem is how to determine the best way for a vehicle to serve a large number of customers at different locations, minimizing distance, time or travel costs. Computer- supported model as well as savings matrix method are used to solve vehicle routing problem. The obtained results could help trading companies and managers at all levels as a basis for costs minimization as well as eliminating servece failures.

transport, distribution, vehicle routing problem, computer-supported model

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