Optimizing petrol stations replenishment

优化加油站补给

• 批准号: 36509-2012
• 负责人: Boctor, Fayez
• 金额: $ 1.38万
• 依托单位: Université Laval
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=568740
• 关键词: Optimizing; petrol; stations; replenishment

Most big North American petrol marketer companies subcontract the replenishment of their branded petrol stations to private petrol transportation companies. Often, the same transportation company services the stations of different brands. In Canada, the transportation cost of delivering petrol products from storage terminals to retailing petrol stations is estimated to be about 480 million $ in 2010. However the optimization of replenishment operations and networks of such transportation companies has received very little research effort. Actually, only six research papers dealing with this topic were published by Canadian researchers and six others by researchers from outside Canada. I am proud to be the coauthor of all the Canadian research publications especially as there is no other Canadian research team doing research in this field. The transportation company has to make a number of simultaneous and inter-related decisions; it must determine the routes for the delivery of all the demanded products, assign these routes to trucks, determine the time schedule for each of the trucks, determine the quantities to be delivered by each trip, and how to assign these quantities to the compartments of the truck selected for the trip. Transportation companies have also many other decisions to make. For example, the terminals to use for the deliveries, the fleet size and composition and its renewal, the location sites for their different trucks, etc. This research program will build upon the research already done to study these problems, provide appropriate decision systems and tools to solve them and build a prototype of a replenishment planning system that uses the developed tools. If we succeed to reduce the petrol replenishment transportation cost by 1%; this can lead to a gain of about 5 million dollars a year.

大多数北美大型汽油销售公司将其品牌加油站的补给工作分包给私人汽油运输公司。通常，同一家运输公司为不同品牌的车站提供服务。在加拿大，2010年将汽油产品从储存终端运送到零售加油站的运输成本估计约为4.8亿美元。然而，对这类运输公司的补货作业和网络的优化研究却很少。实际上，只有六篇关于这一主题的研究论文是由加拿大研究人员发表的，另外六篇是由加拿大以外的研究人员发表的。我很自豪能成为所有加拿大研究出版物的合著者，特别是在没有其他加拿大研究团队在这个领域做研究的情况下。