BUSINESS ECONOMICS

Business Economics

Business Economics

Franklin Furniture was using an outdated routing software product to create its routes. The older, less sophisticated tool required a dispatcher to manually assign stops to a particular driver and sequence the stops in what appeared to be the most logical order. The dispatcher would perform load balancing based on the number of stops and the space in the truck. The tool did not have an algorithm to look at the entire routing problem and solve it for lowest cost. As a result, management was never confident that the delivery routes were optimized for cost ...