In modern grocery logistics, late-night deliveries are possible through secure key-based access to dedicated supermarket storage areas. However, capacity restrictions mean only a few trucks can be delayed beyond official time windows. The objective of this thesis is to adapt the Multi-Commodity Multi-Depot Vehicle Routing Problem with Soft Time Windows to a setting in which a limited number of products may be delivered outside the opening hours without affecting the objective. To test computational performance, the model will then be implemented and solved with a standard solver.

Basic implementation skills in an object-oriented programming language are required for working on this topic.

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