Order Constraints
Constraints that define how orders must be serviced, grouped, or prioritized.
Related Concepts
- Capacity & Demand: Matching order size (Demand) with vehicle room (Capacity).
- Vehicle Characteristics: Ensuring orders are served by vehicles with specific attributes (e.g., refrigeration).
- Time Windows: Defining when an order can be served.
📄️ Booking Penalty
A Booking Penalty (also known as an "order penalty") is an artificial cost, set as an integer, that you assign to a specific order. This penalty is applied only if the optimization engine chooses not to fulfill that order, leading to a "no offer" status.
📄️ Mutually Exclusive Groups
The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) often involves complex constraints beyond simply matching vehicle characteristics with order requirements.
📄️ Nodes and bookings (orders)
The Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) revolves around efficiently delivering goods or services to a set of customers. Two fundamental concepts underpin the VRP: nodes and orders.
📄️ On demand routing and operations
On-demand operations in the Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP) refer to scenarios where customer requests (orders) are not known in advance but rather arise dynamically in real-time. This contrasts with traditional VRP models where all orders are typically assumed to be known beforehand.