Last mile optimization experiment is used to optimize the time a vehicle spends on delivering products from a site to the customers it services. It allows you to create milk runs, generating them in such a way that the vehicles used in the network will visit every customer as they proceed to the last one (which is not necessarily the farthest one), and then return to the initial location.
From the perspective of the optimizer such milk runs are referred to as shipments, since a vehicle is sent with a shipment (a set of orders) to visit a specific group of customers. The customers that form this group are selected by the optimizer based on the input scenario data and the experiment settings.
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