Research on medicine distribution route optimization for community health service institutions
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Research on medicine distribution route optimization for community health service institutions
zbMATH Open document ID: 1400.90218
DOI: 10.1155/2016/6153898
author: Zhao Li
author: Zhiqiang Ma
author: Wei Shi
author: Xianggen Qian
published in: Mathematical Problems in Engineering
publication date: 2018-10-12T00:00:00Z
review text: Summary: At present, the optimization of medicine distribution route has become an urgent issue that needs to be solved in the unified medicine distribution for community health service institutions. Considering the characteristics of medicine distribution for community health service institutions, to minimize the overall cost (including refrigeration storage cost, vehicle fixed cost, and transportation cost) of medicine distribution in a certain region, a transport-distance-constrained local community medicine distribution route optimizing model is established. Then, a tabu-search-based algorithm originated from client direct arrangement ideology is put forward and MATLAB language is used to simulate the medicine distribution procedure. The simulated results show that the proposed algorithm is capable of obtaining an optimum distribution scheme cost with minimum transportation cost.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90B90
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90B06
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90B80
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90C59
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 90C27
zbMATH DE Number: 6953409
describes a project that uses: Matlab
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/6153898
OpenAlex ID: W2360286984
Wikidata QID: Q59140845
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6953409