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I have a warehouse. The customer makes some orders and I have to make a correspondent order to the supplier. Than when the item arrives I will dispatch the item to the customer. I would optimize the process, e.g. minimizing the shipping costs. For example, I would like to decrease the shipping costs from the supplier and make batches of orders when I know that the item is very popular. Obviosuly, the optimization must take into account the size of the warehouse. MILP? May I consider the "popularity" of an item as parameter?

gdm
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    Which kind model are you thinking of? Post an example and we can look what part has to be adjusted in order to regard the popularity of items. – callculus42 Dec 11 '23 at 10:37

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Yes, MILP. Also look up Network Transshipment problems. To incorporate 'popularity' you might have to formalize (as a formula) how popularity is incorporated into the demands or the orders.

JimN
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  • thnk you. popularity, in my opinion, would be just a probability (in bayes terms, maybe). I will try to make a formula. – gdm Dec 11 '23 at 14:08