A heuristic approach for short-term operations planning in a catering company

Poorya Farahani; Martin Grunow; H.O. Günther

doi:10.1109/IEEM.2009.5372966

A heuristic approach for short-term operations planning in a catering company

Poorya Farahani, Martin Grunow, H.O. Günther

Technical University of Berlin

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Certain types of food such as catering foods decay very rapidly. This paper investigates how the quality of such foods can be improved by shortening the time interval between production and delivery. To this end, we develop an approach which integrates short-term production and distribution planning in a novel iterative scheme. The production scheduling problem is solved through an MILP modeling approach which is based on a block planning formulation complemented by a heuristic simplification procedure. Our investigation was motivated by a catering company located in Denmark. The production configuration and the processes assumed in our numerical experiments reflect real settings from this company. First numerical results are reported which demonstrate the applicability of the proposed approach.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
Publisher	IEEE
Publication date	2009
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4244-4869-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IEEM.2009.5372966
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management : December 8 - 11 - Hong Kong Duration: 1 Jan 2009 → …

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Conference	International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management : December 8 - 11
City	Hong Kong
Period	01/01/2009 → …

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