Supply Chain Management: Recent submissions

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    • Modeling Large Scale e-Commerce Distribution Networks 

      Calero, Nelson; Zhang, Yao (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 ...

    • Increasing Fleet Utilization Through a Heuristic to Determine Optimal Backhaul Routes 

      Tahilyani, Geetika; Venkatesh, Shrihari (2019)
      As transportation costs rise, companies need to become more efficient to remain profitable. One way to increase efficiency in transportation is to increase fleet utilization through the addition of backhaul routes. Most ...

    • Decoupled Capacity with Powerloop 

      Fankhauser, Elisa; Li, Ge (2019)
      With the current imbalance of supply and demand of truck drivers in the U.S., improving driver utilization is critical to secure reliable freight transportation. The largest source of downtime for carriers is the time spent ...