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System To Organize Commodity-Product Distribution

  • US 20120084223A1
  • Filed: 10/28/2010
  • Published: 04/05/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2010
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A computer-implemented method for generating a delivery schedule for a group of customers grouped by clusters, the method comprising:

  • receiving a set of input data specifying a set of customers, delivery vehicles, and delivery parameters for distributing a commodity product to the set of customers from one of a filling plant or a hub using direct transport to customers;

    generating, from the input data, a set of one or more clusters, wherein each cluster specifies a disjoint group of one or more of the customers, wherein the disjoint group of one or more of the customers in a cluster represents a group of customers allowed to request deliveries on a common set of days of the week, and which are delivered by the same delivery vehicle on the common set of days of the week;

    determining a delivery schedule for distributing the commodity product to the set of customers, wherein the delivery schedule allocates one or more days of a week for a delivery to each cluster using one of the delivery vehicles.

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