The objective of the problem is to minimise holding costs for final product inventory as well as work-in-process inventory. A non-linear mathematical model is presented and a heuristic algorithm is ...

For the routing, we have utilized a heuristic search algorithm which first, generates a number of full routing paths. For example it generates 500 full routing paths.

Zvi Drezner, The p-Centre Problem-Heuristic and Optimal Algorithms, The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 35, No. 8 (Aug., 1984), pp. 741-748 ...