The benefits of flexible fulfillment center assignments in attended home delivery


Seifried, Kilian ; Agatz, Niels ; Fleischmann, Moritz


Document Type: Conference presentation
Year of publication: 2017
Conference title: VeRoLog
Location of the conference venue: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date of the conference: 10 July 2017
Publication language: English
Institution: Business School > ABWL u. Logistik (Fleischmann 2009-)
Subject: 380 Commerce, communications, transportation
510 Mathematics
650 Management
Classification: MSC: 90B06,
Abstract: Attended home delivery in narrow time windows is the prevailing service model in internet grocery retailing. E-grocers typically serve their customers from one or more dedicated e-fulfillment centers. To simplify planning, each fulfillment center is often responsible for a fixed delivery region. In this contribution, we investigate the benefits of allowing flexibility in the assignment customers to fulfillment centers from a routing perspective. The underlying routing problem can be characterized by a multi-depot vehicle routing problem with time windows. We analyze the advantages of a flexible assignment as compared to a decomposed planning per fulfillment center by using a new exact mixed-integer programming model and a state-of-the-art heuristic. In addition, we investigate the impact of different factors on this benefit and the associated solutions.




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Seifried, Kilian ORCID: 0000-0002-8547-2458 ; Agatz, Niels ; Fleischmann, Moritz The benefits of flexible fulfillment center assignments in attended home delivery. (2017) VeRoLog (Amsterdam, Netherlands) [Conference presentation]


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