Management of upstream and downstream logistics of containers park for a car manufacture

Our paper processes the case of the subsidiary of car manufacturer who imports containers of constituents (components) of cars to be assembled locally. The road transport of these containers is assured by a company of road transport which has to affect to each reservation, optimally, one or more containers while meeting the deadlines proposed by the customers, the employment regulations and the availability of trucks. Once containers arrived and deposited in a park called “bus station”, upon need, their contents are stripped in various warehouses. To control the various costs engendered during transport and storage of these inputs, our task is to optimize the upstream logistics (before arrival of containers at the containers park) and the downstream logistics of the containers park of our car manufacturer. In this paper, we propose a decision-making tool that will allow the managers a better logistics.