Continent-scale inventory routing solutions (Q6709555)

This dataset of inventory routing solutions is a fruit of our partnership between Renault Group and the CERMICS laboratory at Ecole des Ponts. The related instances (also publicly available) are continent-scale with hundreds of customers, 21 days horizon, and 15 depots on average. Routes can last several days (continuous-time), and 30 types of commodities are involved, leading to bin packing problems when filling trucks. In our paper Solving a Continent-Scale Inventory Routing Problem at Renault we introduce a new large neighborhood search to solve those instances. This dataset contains the solutions provided both by our algorithm and by a benchmark we implement, as shown in the computational experiments section of our paper. We hope that sharing them publicly will motivate research on real-world and large-scale inventory routing. Environmental and economical impacts at stake are substantial.