Utilização de sistemas tecnológicos de otimização de rotas no planejamento logístico de uma empresa representante de vendas

Abstract

In order to remain competitive in the Market, companies need to optimize their production and delivery processes to minimize costs. Logistics is the Science that brings the tools that enable companies to pursue these goals. In Brazil, about 2/3 of a company’s logistics costs are spent on transportation, which represented about 12.6% of GDP in 2004. This work focuses on vehicle routing problem programs, tools that aim to minimize transport costs. The goal is to propose and create a vehicle routing problem software that will lower the logistics costs of a China-made sales representative using only free software. For this, a Python programming language compiler was used and the program was developed using, mainly, the Google OR-Tools libraries. As a result, a vehicle routing and scheduling program was obtained that provided the most efficient planning possible, within the context of the company's problem specifications, for its transport operation, minimizing its travel costs.