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Robust Inventory Ship Routing by Column Generation

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  • Marielle Christiansen

    (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

  • Bjørn Nygreen

    (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Abstract

We consider a real integrated ship scheduling and inventory management problem. A fleet of ships transports a single product between production and consumption plants. The transporter has the responsibility for keeping the inventory level within its limits at all actual plants, and there should be no need to stop the production at any plants caused by missing transportation possibilities. Due to uncertainties in sailing time, we introduce soft inventory constraints and artificial penalty costs to the underlying model. The model is solved by a column generation approach. By introducing some model adjustments, the problem decomposes into a routing and scheduling subproblem for each ship and an inventory management subproblem for each port. The columns in the master problem represent ship schedules and port call sequences.

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  • Marielle Christiansen & Bjørn Nygreen, 2005. "Robust Inventory Ship Routing by Column Generation," Springer Books, in: Guy Desaulniers & Jacques Desrosiers & Marius M. Solomon (ed.), Column Generation, chapter 0, pages 197-224, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-0-387-25486-9_7
    DOI: 10.1007/0-387-25486-2_7
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    1. Agostinho Agra & Marielle Christiansen & Alexandrino Delgado, 2013. "Mixed Integer Formulations for a Short Sea Fuel Oil Distribution Problem," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 47(1), pages 108-124, February.
    2. Norlund, Ellen Karoline & Gribkovskaia, Irina & Laporte, Gilbert, 2015. "Supply vessel planning under cost, environment and robustness considerations," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 57(PB), pages 271-281.
    3. Agostinho Agra & Marielle Christiansen & Lars Magnus Hvattum & Filipe Rodrigues, 2018. "Robust Optimization for a Maritime Inventory Routing Problem," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 52(3), pages 509-525, June.
    4. Kristin Uggen & Marte Fodstad & Vibeke Nørstebø, 2013. "Using and extending fix-and-relax to solve maritime inventory routing problems," TOP: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, Springer;Sociedad de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, vol. 21(2), pages 355-377, July.
    5. de Mare, R. & Spliet, R. & Huisman, D., 2010. "A Branch-and-Price Approach for a Ship Routing Problem with Multiple Products and Inventory Constraints," Econometric Institute Research Papers EI 2010-05, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), Econometric Institute.
    6. Rodrigues, Filipe & Agra, Agostinho & Christiansen, Marielle & Hvattum, Lars Magnus & Requejo, Cristina, 2019. "Comparing techniques for modelling uncertainty in a maritime inventory routing problem," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 277(3), pages 831-845.
    7. Stålhane, Magnus & Andersson, Henrik & Christiansen, Marielle & Fagerholt, Kjetil, 2014. "Vendor managed inventory in tramp shipping," Omega, Elsevier, vol. 47(C), pages 60-72.
    8. Ksciuk, Jana & Kuhlemann, Stefan & Tierney, Kevin & Koberstein, Achim, 2023. "Uncertainty in maritime ship routing and scheduling: A Literature review," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 308(2), pages 499-524.
    9. Christiansen, Marielle & Fagerholt, Kjetil & Nygreen, Bjørn & Ronen, David, 2013. "Ship routing and scheduling in the new millennium," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 228(3), pages 467-483.
    10. Brønmo, Geir & Nygreen, Bjørn & Lysgaard, Jens, 2010. "Column generation approaches to ship scheduling with flexible cargo sizes," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 200(1), pages 139-150, January.
    11. Yazdani, Majid & Aouam, Tarik, 2023. "Shipment planning and safety stock placement in maritime supply chains with stochastic demand and transportation times," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 263(C).
    12. Nabil Absi & Diego Cattaruzza & Dominique Feillet & Maxime Ogier & Frédéric Semet, 2020. "A Heuristic Branch-Cut-and-Price Algorithm for the ROADEF/EURO Challenge on Inventory Routing," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 54(2), pages 313-329, March.
    13. Gustavo Souto dos Santos Diz & Silvio Hamacher & Fabricio Oliveira, 2019. "A robust optimization model for the maritime inventory routing problem," Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal, Springer, vol. 31(3), pages 675-701, September.
    14. Leandro C. Coelho & Jean-François Cordeau & Gilbert Laporte, 2014. "Thirty Years of Inventory Routing," Transportation Science, INFORMS, vol. 48(1), pages 1-19, February.

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