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A decision support system for scheduling fleets of fuel supply vessels

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  • Rachaniotis, Nikolaos

    (Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Economics)

  • Masvoula, Marisa

    (General Secretariat of Information Systems)

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Fleets of fuel supply vessels are used to provide ships anchored in ports different oil products. Demand is satisfied based on a pull system, where oil shipments are triggered by orders placed by customers and delivered on a specific agreed day. The aim of this paper is to develop a time-effective Decision Support System (DSS) in order to aid the fleet schedulers to decide in a very short time (usually less than 10 minutes in the ships’ fuel supply business) if they will accept new orders, based on the fleet’s capacity and availability, and generate a feasible sub-optimal operation schedule. The DSS was tested in a small Hellenic oil company and the empirical evaluation is presented.

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  • Rachaniotis, Nikolaos & Masvoula, Marisa, 2015. "A decision support system for scheduling fleets of fuel supply vessels," DUTH Research Papers in Economics 3-2015, Democritus University of Thrace, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:duthrp:2015_003
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    Keywords

    Decision support system; OR in maritime industry; transportation; scheduling; heuristics;
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    • R40 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Transportation Economics - - - General

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