Freight Time and Cost Optimization in Complex Logistics Networks

Figure 4

Distance versus demand frequency. Green x’s denote customers that were serviced by the indirect strategy at least once, and blue dots denote customers that were only serviced by the direct strategy. Red dotted lines represent a demand frequency of 600 lbs/day; customers with a lower demand frequency only received goods by the direct strategy, per company policy. (a) All historical company data. (b) The last two months of data.

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