Purpose: This research develops a model integrating inventory with order pick-up that considers both the vendor's capacities and the pick-up time for the multi-vendor single-buyer (MVSB) system. Design/methodology/approach: A model of integrating inventory with pick-up of order considering both...

Because customers must usually arrange their schedules to be present for home services, they desire an accurate estimate of when the service will take place. However, even when firms quote large service time windows, they are often missed, leading to customer dissatisfaction. Wide time windows...

The technical report will introduce an application to deal with the massive drones' or hydrones departures, navigation, fly, and landing in different destinations. We propose the highway routes system (DHR-System) that depends on the interconnectivity between G5, modern hardware internet system...

We study an infinite-horizon, stochastic, dynamic optimization problem for an on-demand food-delivery platform, with a one-time capacity-investment decision on the number of capacitated drivers to employ at the beginning of the horizon, and real-time order-batching and driver-routing decisions...

In this paper, we propose the Two-Echelon Location-Routing Problem with Fuzzy Demand (2E-LRP-FD) of the " county-township-village" e-commerce logistics network. Firstly, a bi-objective model of profit maximization of logistics enterprises considering government subsidies and carbon emissions...

In the vehicle routing literature, equity for drivers is mostly considered on a daily basis. In this work, we extend the literature by addressing equity on a longer term. We consider a time horizon of a few weeks and a test-bed routing problem motivated by healthcare logistics, with customer...

We consider a robust variant of the vehicle routing problem with heterogeneous time windows (RVRP-HTW) with a focus on delay-resistant solutions. Here, customers have different availability time windows for every vehicle and must be provided with a preferably tight appointment window for the...

Unrestrained real-time relocation of Emergency medical services (EMS) leads to excessive and unbalanced workload. Online redeployment policies aim to reduce response times, compensating for the coverage gap left by busy ambulances, however, it is important to account for the additional effort...