The traveling purchaser problem for perishable foods

Ilker Küçükoglu, Pieter Vansteenwegen, Dirk Cattrysse

Abstract: Highlights•A new variant of the traveling purchaser problem is proposed.•A non-linear mathematical formulation of the problem is presented.•A new adaptive large neighborhood search algorithm is introduced.•The proposed algorithm outperforms the state-of-the-art solution approaches.•A new benchmark problem set is introduced for the considered problem.