optimizes order allocation, substitution, and lateral transshipment while explicitly incorporating customer satisfaction through … objective function (around 72% of the total cost), whereas lateral transshipment accounts for less than 6%, indicating that well … substitution and transshipment. The findings provide actionable insights for e-tailers seeking to design resilient fulfillment …

investigate the value of the proposed transshipment network under various operational conditions and by benchmarking against a … direct shipment network and a network with a single transshipment point which mimics a classical star-shaped hub … ground and air transportation improves the coverage and that transshipment enables serving a large number of origin …