Uludag University, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Industrial Engineering Department, Gorukle Campus, 16059, Bursa, Turkey
*Corresponding author asliaksoy@uludag.edu.tr
Online published on 8 November, 2017.
Products are transported from depot to workstations and between workstations by milk-run vehicles in an automotive equipment manufacturer's plant. Milk-run operators were completing routes earlier than anticipated time for each path in current state, and, also, transported quantities were non-standard. Manufacturer aims to optimization and standardization of milk-run tours. This paper presents suggestions to get over existing problems of a manufacturer. Finally, workload acquisition was obtained with the results of the suggestions.
Gantt chart, mathematical model, milk-run optimization, mixed integer linear programming
