Abstract

Wholesaling vegetables stands as a major problem in the business market. The main role of the wholesaler is to supply the vegetables raw and fresh to retail supermarkets on a daily basis. The challenge here lies in getting done with this task efficiently with minimum time and maximum profit. The wholesaler has to collect different kinds of vegetables (objects) from different sources (resources), in order to sell the vegetables in different marketplaces (objects). Mathematically, this problem can be viewed as a multi-objective multi-resource (MOMR) problem, in which the ultimate goal is to reduce the time and increase the profit attained. For such a MOMR Knapsack problem, the Fuzzy solution model is applied in this work to present efficient wholesaling of vegetables. The defined objective function for the Fuzzy solution model considers possible profit, demand, and cost of travel. This work is proceeded with an assumption that all the vegetables are available for all the resources. The performance of the proposed model is then evaluated and compared with the existing works for validation.

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