The purpose of the study is to propose a framework for fleet management and make suitable distribution solution choices in the food industry.
This study reviews the literature to examine food distribution criteria. These criteria are used in the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) assessment and combined with discrete events simulation in a structured framework, which is validated through an empirical study.
The empirical case results demonstrate that both the AHP and discrete events simulation converge toward the same solution in most cases.
This study contributes to the literature on distribution management and develops a framework that can both guide future research and aid logistics practitioners in analysing distribution decision-making systems in dynamic environments.
