Purchase and Transportation Planning for Food Retailing in Japan

Masatoshi Sakawa ； Ichiro Nishizaki ； Takeshi Matsui ； Tomohiro Hayashida

《Asia Pacific Management Review》 預刊文章 Pp. 233-246

並列摘要

In this paper, we consider purchase and transportation planning for food retailing in Japan, and formulate a linear programming problem where the profit of a food retailer is maximized. The food retailer deals with vegetables and fruits which are purchased at the central wholesale markets in several cities, and transports them by truck from each of the central wholesaler markets to the food retailer's storehouse. After solving the linear programming problem and examining the optimal solution, we conduct sensitivity analysis by changing some parameters from managerial viewpoints. Finally, we discuss outsourcing of the purchase operations to a distributer.

並列關鍵字

Purchase problem ； food retailing ； linear programming ； sensitivity analysis