Multi-compartment Fuel Delivery with Network Flow Model of Transportation
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Thailand's fuel transportation business relies mainly on the road because it is a convenient form of transportation. It can deliver all places better than other modes of transport and can meet the needs of customers thoroughly. However, if there are methods that help in planning the fuel delivery management, fast accurate cost calculation and effective as a result, such organizations can reduce the costs incurred from planning the delivery, reduce errors in costing for delivery planning, and the operation time of employees. The research examines the solutions to three types of fuel delivery problems with multi-compartment of trucks. The objective is to propose a network flow model of transportation model for delivering fuel by multi-compartment of trucks, providing the lowest delivery costs. A 30-day sample of the company's data (30 samples) was taken and processed to find an answer to compare it with the current method and the proposed model. The results showed that the proposed model can help to calculate the average cost of 3.411 million baht per day. The average processing time for the solution of 433.20 seconds. While the current method costs an average of 3.493 million baht per day and an average processing time of 4,907.29 seconds. The proposed model provided better results than the current method regarding delivery costs and short processing times.
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