3 documents found, page 1 of 1
Time windows vehicle routing problem to on-time transportation of biological pr...
Pereira, Maria Teresa; Oliveira, Marisa; Ferreira, Fernanda A.; Barreiras, Alcinda; Carneiro, LilianaThis paper addresses a Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) applied to the field of healthcare. Biological products are collected from patients at the local healthcare centers and transported to hospital laboratories for further processing and analysis. This paper analyses and determines a set of vehicle routes to perform on-time transportation of biological products from local healthcare centers to the main hospital,...
Definition of a decision support model for calculating the economic production ...
Pereira, M. Teresa; Magalhães, Hugo; Ferreira, Fernanda A.; Barreiras, AlcindaThis paper proposes a Decision Support System (DSS) for Calculating the Economic Production Lot Size. The focus is on the analysis of improvement of manufacturing productivity in the packaging industry, specifically in a metal packaging company. Through combining different SKUs (Stock Keeping Units) in the same production order, as opposed to the current single SKU orders production paradigm of, it is possible ...
Improvement in external logistics of an automotive component manufacturing comp...
Machado, Ana Beatriz; Silva, Francisco J. G.; Sá, José Carlos; Barreiras, Alcinda; Pinto Ferreira, Luís; Pereira, Maria Teresa; Santos, GilbertoThis work was developed in a company that produces components, such as, Bowden cables and comfort systems for the automobile industry. The company's external logistics department was the place where the work was carried out. The constant need of urgent shippings in the company in order to comply with the delivery scheduled with its customers, leads the organization to have an unnecessary cost. This case study i...