Route Sheet based VRP Solving
While geo map based vehicle routing problem solving is more realistic approach for real-world vehicle routing, it is still lacking in certain aspect some features common to interfacing with ERP and CRM systems nowadays commonly used by business enterprise entities. For instance, the address of a customer is usually known and stored in a CRM database. Its latitude and longitude information may not be available.
Therefore, the Vehicle Routing Scheduler Library provides Route Sheet as a complementary feature to Geo Map based Vehicle Routing Problem Solving in which problem instance is created using customer’s address instead of geo location on the map. Reverse geocoding is performed for conversion of actual address into geo location (lat, lon).
In this section, step-by-step tasks of solving route sheet based VRP are described. For simplicity, Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) is solved using various schedulers (i.e. solution methods).
- Go to Flavors section.
- Select Route Sheet link of Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem or Select Capacitated VRP → Route Sheet menu as shown in Figure.
- CVRP Route Sheet workspace will be launch as shown in Figure.
- Take note of the caption title: CVRP: RouteSheet(User-defined Map)(Clark & Wright Savings)
CVRP: RouteSheet: user is currently in CVRP Route Sheet workspace
User-defined Map: default Excel-like data grid
Clark & Wright Savings: default selected solution method
