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Micro-Fulfillment Feasibility for Metro Trade Area Transformation
(2021-06-16)
The world’s largest coffee chain is looking to cater to different patterns of customer demand especially in metro areas that are densely packed with their stores. With more of the demand becoming mobile and customers ...
Assessing Feasibility of the Delivery Drone
(2019)
Service level growth is hindered by declining activity from customers needing access to physical assets stored by the sponsor company. The delivery drone presents a viable option to support the initiative of maintaining ...
Innovative Consolidation Techniques for Improved Transportation Efficiency
(2021-06-16)
Many trucks in the US travel well below permitted cube and volume utilization, so consolidating two or more shipments onto a single multi-stop truckload (MSTL) route can increase truck utilization and decrease transportation ...
E-commerce Business-to-Business (e-B2B) Distribution Strategy and Network Design for Nanostores
(2021-06-16)
With 50 million nanostores globally, nanoretailing is the most important retail channel in developing countries. In India, these stores are called kiranas, and they are the backbone of India's retail market. Unfortunately, ...
The Impact of Trade Credits in Nanostore Distribution
(2021-06-16)
In developing countries, small mom-and-pop grocery stores called nanostores are one of the main grocery market channels. Cash constraints are a severe issue that affects these small businesses, preventing them from buying ...
Horizontal Collaboration in Last Mile Delivery of Online Grocery Orders
(2019)
Digital technology advancement has been greatly changing grocery retailing customers’ behavior and expectations. Enabled by digital technologies and pleased by the digital disruptors, customers nowadays are expecting ...
A Strategic Tool for Finding Optimal Last Mile Fleet Size & Fleet Composition, using Knapsack, Bin Packing, and Aggregate Planning
(2022-06-10)
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ecommerce share of retail has grown at an accelerated rate, increasing the number of home deliveries and delivery speed expectation from customers. Moreover, demand variability ...
Modeling Large Scale e-Commerce Distribution Networks
(2019)
As urbanization and e-commerce continue to grow at a rapid rate, companies are rethinking the way they operate their final-mile distribution networks to prepare for the scaling of their costs. How can companies leverage ...
Potential Benefits of Drones for Vaccine Last-Mile Delivery in Nepal
(2021-06-16)
Nepal’s immunization coverage hovers around 78%, and 59 out of 77 districts have not yet been fully immunized. The objective of this study is to review the vaccine last-mile distribution to find a cost-efficient solution ...
Facility Location Optimization for Last-mile Delivery
(2019)
Technological breakthroughs and consumer preferences have led to e-commerce growth in the United States. Given the continued rise in e-commerce demand, the final leg of transportation of goods to the end recipient, or the ...