• Long‐term effects of short planning horizons for inventory routing problems 

      Ben Ahmed, Mohamed; Okoronkwo, Onyemaechi Linda; Okoronkwo, Edwin Chimezie; Hvattum, Lars Magnus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      This paper presents a detailed study concerning the importance of the planning horizon when solving inventory routing problems (IRPs). We evaluate the quality of decisions obtained by solving a finite-horizon IRP. We also ...
    • New benchmark instances for the inventory routing problem 

      Skålnes, Jørgen; Ben Ahmed, Mohamed; Hvattum, Lars Magnus; Stålhane, Magnus (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      The existing sets of benchmark instances for the inventory routing problem (IRP) have been beneficial for investigating and illustrating the properties of the problem. However, they possess certain features and design ...