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South African Journal of Industrial Engineering

versão On-line ISSN 2224-7890
versão impressa ISSN 1012-277X

S. Afr. J. Ind. Eng. vol.21 no.2 Pretoria  2010

 

GENERAL ARTICLE

 

Activity-based costing for vehicle routing problems

 

 

A.J. MoolmanI; K.KoenII; J. van der WesthuizenIII

IDepartment of Industrial Engineering, University of Pretoria, South Africa alwyn@e-Logics.co.za
IIDepartment of Business Management, University of Pretoria, South Africa kkoen@clover.co.za
IIIe-Logics Pty Ltd, South Africa johann@e-Logics.co.za

 

 


ABSTRACT

Activity-based costing (ABC) is a costing model that identifies activity costs in an organisation. It assigns the cost of activity resources to generate the actual cost of products in order to eliminateunprofitable products and to lowerthe prices of overpriced ones. The vehicle routing problem (VRP) is a combinatorial optimisation and nonlinear programming problem that seeks to service a number of customers with a fleet of vehicles in a cost-effective manner. In this article we propose a new approach to determine costing for vehicle routing type problems. The methodology incorporates the predictive sharing of a resource by clustering producers.


OPSOMMING

'Activity-based costing' (ABC) is 'n kostemodel wat die aktiwiteitskoste in 'n organisasie identifiseer. Dit allokeer die koste van die bronne sodat die ware koste van die vervaardiging en dienste van die produk bereken kan word om winsgewendheid te bepaal. Die 'vehicle routing problem' (VRP) is 'n kombinatoriese optimisering en nie-lineêre programmeringsprobleem wat verskeie kliënte met 'n vloot voertuie in die mees koste-effektiewe manier bedien. Die artikel bespreek 'n nuwe metode om die kombinasie van probleme op te los. Die metode maak gebruik van groeperingsalgoritmes om meer akkurate voertuig deling te voorspel.


 

 

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* Corresponding author.
1 The author was enrolled for a PhD (Industrial Engineering) degree in the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pretoria.
2 The author was enrolled for a Master Programme in Supply Chain Management (Business Management) certificate in the Department of Business Management, University of Pretoria.

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