Supply Chain Management

Horizontal Collaboration in Last Mile Delivery of Online Grocery Orders

Nagarathinam, Arun; Zhang, Minhui (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 ...
Impact of Freight Consolidation on Logistics Cost and Emissions

Mohan, Ajay; So, Sik (Lance) (2019)

The transportation sector is one of the two principal contributors to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and its contributions are expected to double by 2050. Growing consumer demand for home deliveries with high service levels ...
Transportation Cost and Tariff Optimization in the Specialty Tire and Wheels Industry

Pedersen, Kristin; O'Donnell, Brian (2019)

Complexity arises as products can take multiple transportation paths that flow from manufacturing sites through to different distribution centers and onward to the end customer destination. Changing transportation costs ...