Descripción: “...The tabu search metaheuristic was implemented in the putaway operation of a Food company in Medellin, allowing the reduction of time and cost of 7 %, what amounts to a cost savings of $ 750000 a month and 383 minutes a month compared to a FLCL (Farthest Location -Closest Location) routing strategy, currently being used by the  Food company, which allows to increase the efficiency of the operation and Distribution Center (DC).ResumoO artigo tem como objetivo desenvolver uma metaheurística busca tabu para configurar rotas de alojamento, que são modelados como um problema do tipo TSP (Traveling Salesman Problem), a fim de obter as sequências de m posições de armazenamento j para localizar n produtos i ,no menor tempo possível. ...”

Descripción: “...Coherence between the manager’s actions and results in the organizations was not found, therefore, the creation of a quality center was proposed to the Municipality of Medellin, as public politics to face the global competition. ...”

Descripción: “...The results obtained in a rapidly growing urban center in Colombia provides a framework to understand the behavior of household purchases based in three main variables a) products, b) vehicles and c) purchase frequency related to the type of food procurement facility.  ...”

Descripción: “...Todo esto soportado en concepciones teóricas del territorio, de la implementación de diferentes técnicas y herramientas definidas desde los paradigmas racionalistacualitativo y hermenéutico-cualitativo, y de los procesos de formación investigativa del Semillero de Investigación Ciudad y Territorio (CITER) del Programa de Ingeniería Civil de la Universidad Piloto de Colombia.AbstractThis research sought to establish the guidelines to keep in mind to conduct prospective processes and territorial planning for the Tolima Department from four aspects: i) The concept of territory as a system, ii) the characterization and analysis the region through the application of models of functional regionalization and nodal hierarchy, iii) the explaining of different documents and / or public policies that aim to promote infrastructure development or optimize the conditions, attributes and services of the various urban centers of Department; and iv) The study of the role and relevance of Ibague as uninodal center in the System of Colombian Cities. ...”