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Article

Optimization of the Pick-Up and Delivery Technology in a Selected Company: A Case Study

by
Ondrej Stopka
1,*,
Patrik Gross
1,
Jan Pečman
1,
Jiří Hanzl
1,
Mária Stopková
1 and
Martin Jurkovič
2
1
Department of Transport and Logistics, Faculty of Technology, Institute of Technology and Business in Ceske Budejovice, Okruzni 517/10, 37001 Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic
2
The Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Zilina, Univerzitna 1, 01026 Zilina, Slovakia
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Technologies 2022, 10(4), 84; https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies10040084
Submission received: 15 June 2022 / Revised: 11 July 2022 / Accepted: 12 July 2022 / Published: 14 July 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of Technologies—Recent Advances and Perspectives)
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Abstract

This article deals with pick-up and delivery activities in a selected company that focuses on the distribution of products in the gastronomic sector of the market and suggests how to make the present approach more efficient. The introductory part of the article clarifies the meanings of basic concepts related to the issue of optimizing the logistics processes in the company. The crucial goal is to analyze the existing pick-up and delivery technology and then, in the application part of the article, to propose adequate measures in the context of streamlining these activities with their technical and economic evaluation. An analysis of current delivery routes, which are used for the distribution of gastronomic products, is first performed. Thereafter, the routes are optimized with the aim of minimizing the total distance traveled by using the Operations Research methods, namely: the Hungarian method, Vogel approximation method, nearest neighbor method and the Routin route planner which is based on a principle of the Greedy algorithm. At the end of the article, a technical and economical evaluation of the findings is discussed, wherein the individual results of optimization through selected methods are first compared and then, new optimized routes are selected.
Keywords: logistics center; Operations Research; distribution problem; vehicle routing problem; Hungarian method; Vogel approximation method; nearest neighbor method logistics center; Operations Research; distribution problem; vehicle routing problem; Hungarian method; Vogel approximation method; nearest neighbor method

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Stopka, O.; Gross, P.; Pečman, J.; Hanzl, J.; Stopková, M.; Jurkovič, M. Optimization of the Pick-Up and Delivery Technology in a Selected Company: A Case Study. Technologies 2022, 10, 84. https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies10040084

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Stopka O, Gross P, Pečman J, Hanzl J, Stopková M, Jurkovič M. Optimization of the Pick-Up and Delivery Technology in a Selected Company: A Case Study. Technologies. 2022; 10(4):84. https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies10040084

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Stopka, Ondrej, Patrik Gross, Jan Pečman, Jiří Hanzl, Mária Stopková, and Martin Jurkovič. 2022. "Optimization of the Pick-Up and Delivery Technology in a Selected Company: A Case Study" Technologies 10, no. 4: 84. https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies10040084

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Stopka, O., Gross, P., Pečman, J., Hanzl, J., Stopková, M., & Jurkovič, M. (2022). Optimization of the Pick-Up and Delivery Technology in a Selected Company: A Case Study. Technologies, 10(4), 84. https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies10040084

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