Purpose: Assembly Line Balancing (ALB) is critical to manufacturing efficiency and productivity. It involves assigning tasks to workstations to optimise performance while satisfying task priority and cycle time constraints. The Simple ALBP (SALBP) is a simplified version of the general problem...

Background: Distribution systems often face the dual challenge of delivering products to customers and retrieving damaged items for repair, especially when the service center is separate from the depot. An optimized solution to this logistics problem produces benefits in terms of costs,...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of behavioral biases on investment decisions through a serial mediation of overconfidence and disposition effects. Design/methodology/approach The authors assess the behavioral biases affecting the investment decisions of life...

In this work, we extend the time-dependent vehicle routing problem with time windows on a road network by considering two types of vehicles, large and small, to serve customers. Motivated from city logistics applications, large vehicles are forbidden from the downtown area. Accordingly, goods...

Warehouse layout optimization is critical to inventory and logistics management in organizations. In many instances, limited warehouse space is a constraint and a barrier to expanding operations and increasing demand. We present a multi-step solution using mixed integer programming to improve...