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ISE 754: Logistics Engineering
Fitts Department of Industrial and
Systems Engineering
North Carolina State University
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| Spring
2018 |
Mon
and Wed |
3:00
– 4:15 p.m. |
Daniels
327 |
This
course will present the fundamental quantitative approaches that
are used in the design and control of logistics systems, including
modeling issues, design concepts, computational considerations, and the
use of commercial software packages. This quantitative, or engineering,
approach to logistics is meant to complement that of business logistics,
which is concerned with the management of logistics processes and
relationships.
Note: All assignments should be submitted using Wolfware
Classic.
Web References
Matlab and Gurobi
Matlab is
available in all of the Eos and Unity computing labs on campus and a student
version is available for download to your personal computer (we will be
using version R2017b). Gurobi is available for download
for students, with a one-year license for the full-featured,
no-size-limit version of the software (we will be using version 7.5.1).
- Downloading a copy
of Matlab, for NCSU
students.
- Downloading
a copy of Gurobi, free for students. You will need to create an
account using your @ncsu.edu email and then access your
free named-user academic license while connected to the NCSU
network (distance students should use the NCSU
VPN to access the network remotely). After registering the
software with the license, you will be able to use Gurobi anywhere. In
order to run Gurobi from Matlab,
execute the following command:
- path(path,'c:\gurobi751\win64\matlab\');
- Basic
Concepts in Matlab,
document providing a short overview of Matlab
- Introduction
to Computing - Matlab,
short video lectures by Lina Battestilli, NCSU Computer Science Dept.,
covering the basics of Matlab
(requires NCSU ID to access)
- Documentation,
Manuals, and Tutorials on the MathWorks website (the developers of
Matlab) provide the most
comprehensive and up-to-date reference source for Matlab.
- Octave and Scilab
are free languages that are so similar to Matlab
that it is very easy to port programs.
- R is a free language
for statistical computing and graphics that is similar to Matlab
- Python is a free general-purpose
programming language that, together with the NumPy, SciPy, and
Matplotlib packages, provides capabilities similar to Matlab
(see NumPy for
Matlab Users).
- Julia, a new free programming
language that combines the ease of use of Matlab,
Python, or R with the speed of C++, Fortran, or Java (see differences
between Julia and Matlab).
- Best
Practices for Scientific Computing, describes how to best use a
high-level language like Matlab
in a research environment.
Math Programming Solvers
Transportation
- Freight calculator,
provides market estimates ocean, air, rail, and truck shipments
- TL and LTL PPI,
select Series ID=PCU484121484121 (TL) and Series ID=PCU484122484122
(LTL) for current monthly and annual PPI values
- FedEx LTL
rates, provides one-time (spot) LTL rate quote
- CzarLite,
provides demo LTL tariff
- Glossary
of Shipping Terms from U.S. Department of Transportation
- Oak Ridge
National Highway Network Description, has details concerning
supplemental Node and Link info
- ORNL CTA Transportation
Network, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's database of roads, rail,
and intermodal networks
- National
Highway Planning Network (NHPN), the Federal Highway
Administration's road network database
Geocoding and Mapping
- FIPS
Codes:
- State
FIPS Codes: two-digit FIPS State Numeric Codes and the
two-letter FIPS State Alpha Code for each state
- County
FIPS Codes: three-digit FIPS County Nuneric Codes for each
county in each state.
- Coastline
Extractor, extract coastline segments bounded by a specified
latitude/longitude range
- How far is it?, calculates
great circle distances (same as DISTS using 'mi')
- Aviation Formulary
V1.23, has information on great circle distances
- GIS FAQ
Question --Q5.1--: What is the best way to calculate the great
circle distance (which deliberately ignores elevation differences)
between 2 points? (originally at
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/gisfaq?Q5.1)
TSP and VRP
- TSPLIB,
standard test instances for TSP and Capacitated VRP
Warehousing
- Warehouse
and Distribution Science, Release 0.96, John J. Bartholdi, III and
Steven T. Hackman, www.warehouse-science.com,online book covering
warehouse design
- Kees Roodbergen’s Interactive
Warehouse, can interactively route order pickers in a warehouse
using a variety of different heuristics
- aisle411, retail store order
picking app
- KIVA Systems,
mobile-robotic order picking (see also)
- Baxter,
factory robot built by Rodney Brooks, who also developed the Rumba
robotic vacuum
- Rules
of Thumb, provides rough estimates of warehouse equipment costs
Misc.
- UNSPSC, UN Standard Products and
Services coding system to classify both products and services for
ecommerce