配送系统的运输与库存整合优化是物流配送一体化战略的重要研究课题.给出了称之为运输与库存问题的研究文献综述.运输与库存问题的研究目标是在满足给定的客户服务水平及库存和运输的限制条件下,确定零售商的补货时刻、补货数量与车辆的行车线路并使该供应链运输和两级库存总费用的最小化.首先给出了该问题的描述及分类,然后对该领域的结果进行了回顾与总结.
Integrating transportation and inventory decisions prove one of the most studied research areas in distribution system. The paper presents a review of the available literature on problems denoted as transportation-and-inventory(TAD problems. The object of TAI is to minimize the total cost of transportation and inventory in the supply chain and determine for each time instant the retailers to be visited and the quantity to ship and the route of the vehicle under the restriction of given customer service level and given inventory and transportation condition. A classification scheme is first proposed for these problems. Then the results obtained in this area are summarized.