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• [P177] Delivery Volume Improvement for Planning Medication Distribution
  Author(s): Jeffrey William Herrmann
  
  

  Abstract
  This paper considers the problem of planning the logistics of distributing medication to points of dispensing (PODs), which will give medication to the public. Previous work on a two-stage routing and scheduling approach showed that it can generate solutions with reasonable minimum slack. This paper presents a delivery volume improvement algorithm that can increase the minimum slack of a given solution.

  
   

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