Optimizing routing and delivery patterns with multi-compartment vehicles

Markus Frank, Manuel Ostermeier, Andreas Holzapfel, Alexander Hübner and Heinrich Kuhn

European Journal of Operational Research, 2021, vol. 293, issue 2, 495-510

Abstract: Retailers usually apply repetitive weekly delivery patterns when scheduling the workforce for shelf replenishment, defining cyclic transportation routes and managing warehouse capacities. In doing so, all logistics subsystems are jointly scheduled. Grocery products require different temperature zones. As long as transport was in separated vehicles due to temperature requirements, it was not possible to coordinate deliveries across different temperature zones. The recent introduction of multi-compartment trucks has changed this and allows joint deliveries. This simultaneous delivery of multiple product segments impacts repetitive weekly delivery patterns as, for example, low volume segments can be delivered more frequently if they are transported together with high volume segments.

Keywords: Supply chain management; Multi-temperature logistics; Transportation; Retailing; Adaptive large neighborhood search (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2020.12.033

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