JOpt.TourOptimizer includes timed manufacturing planning module into Pickup-and-Delivery logic – or “How to deliver a Pizza in time?”

JOpt is able to do manufacturing-planning to allow for even better optimized PND-Problems.

2021/11/01, Neu-Ulm, Germany – DNA released a new module for PND-Problems. JOpt.TourOptimizer comes with a built-in, and well-known pickup-and-delivery optimization module. A predefined number of goods must be either delivered to customers (nodes) or picked up at nodes by a Resource (for example a truck). For a delivery problem, the Resource is taking up the goods at its home location and JOpt finds the most optimal way to serve all nodes with their predefined requests.
To introduce our new module, let’s assume we have two pizza restaurants of the same company chain. Both are situated within the same city at a distance of a few kilometers. Each restaurant has one delivery man. For every customer order, the restaurants can decide which restaurant is serving the request. With JOpt it is possible to create multiple fabrication-like nodes, that can generate goods (in our example, Pizzas). This way, it is no longer necessary to predefine the number of goods, instead, JOpt automatically defines: “Where and how many goods need to be provided”. In our example, JOpt defines which Pizza restaurant has to prepare which Pizza to serve all customers in an optimal way.
Further, the restaurant chain advertises: "If you don't get your pizza within 90 minutes, you get if for free!". Therefore, each pizza should be delivered within 90 minutes. Our new module is able to take up a predefined delivery time as a parameter, even for goods that are generated by JOpt itself.

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About DNA Evolutions GmbH:

DNA Evolutions located in Ulm, Germany develops and sells flexible cloud containers, Java components as well as online services for various optimization tasks for transportation planning and mobile workforce scheduling. Worldwide DNA partners rely on DNA's scheduling and rapid decision technology - JOpt - to provide their customers with outstanding solutions for strategic and operational taskforce planning within one single piece of software. Software vendors or IT service providers use DNA's software modules to complement and enhance products or projects with innovative and special expertise features such as automatic resource
planning and route optimization.

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