We consider a service provider performing pre-planned service for initially known customers with a fleet of vehicles, e.g., parcel delivery. During execution, new dynamic service requests occur, e.g., for parcel pickup. The goal of the service provider is to serve as many dynamic requests as...

We present a problem motivated by discussions with Colombian e-commerce platforms for agri-food products. In regular time intervals (periods), the platforms collect groceries from local farmers and stores them at a warehouse to distribute them to local customers. The supply quantities and prices...

Many larger grocery stores offer home delivery services. However, the delivery cost is usually high and such services are rarely profitable. One way of reducing cost is by outsourcing some orders to in-store customers for a compensation. While initially single orders were dynamically assigned to...

We consider a problem where customers dynamically request next-day home service, e.g., repair or instalment. Unlike attended home delivery, customers cannot select a time window (TW), but the service provider assigns a next-day TW to each new customer if the customer can feasibly be inserted in...