Modelo Logístico para la Distribución de Productos en el Sector Retail Dentro de una Red de Abastecimiento Dirigida por la Demanda

Abstract

The work developed presents a solution to a vehicle routing problem for the distribution of products in the retail sector specifically in regard to home sales where customers can choose products from different supermarkets and these are taken to their place of residence. In this way the problem considers the restrictions of capacity of the fleet to use, the windows of time in which the demand of the customers must be satisfied, multiple origins being these the supermarkets, multiple destinies being these the clients, the collection and the Delivery of the products, being solved through a software programmed in Visual Basic of excel, which executes a heuristic based on a combinatorial analysis of exhaustive search to find the best route.