TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose Finding a rational approach to maintain a freshness of foods and perishable goods and saving their intrinsic attributes during a distribution of these products is one of the main issues for distribution and logistics companies. This paper aims to provide a framework for distribution of perishable goods which can be applied for real life situations.Design/methodology/approach This paper proposes a novel mathematical model for transportation inventory location routing problem. In addition, the paper addresses the impact of perishable goods age on the demand of final customers. The model is optimally solved for small- and medium-scale problems. Moreover, regarding to NP-hard nature of the proposed model, two simple and one hybrid metaheuristic algorithms are developed to cope with the complexity of problem in large scale problems.Findings Numerical examples with different scenarios and sensitivity analysis are conducted to investigate the performance of proposed algorithms and impacts of important parameters on optimal solutions. The results show the acceptable performance of proposed algorithms.Originality/value The authors formulate a novel mathematical model which can be applicable in perishable goods distribution systems In this regard, the authors consider lost sale which is proportional to age of products. A new hybrid approach is applied to tackle the problem and the results show the rational performance of the algorithm.
VL  - 14
IS  - 1
SN  - 1746-5664
DO  - 10.1108/JM2-05-2018-0064
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/JM2-05-2018-0064
AU  - Fatemi Ghomi S.M.T.
AU  - Asgarian B.
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - Development of metaheuristics to solve a transportation inventory location routing problem considering lost sale for perishable goods
T2  - Journal of Modelling in Management
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 175
EP  - 198
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -